Scacchinella titan

Scacchinella titan

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScacchinellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 61 of 61 occurrencesPermian291–290 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 3 occurrences289–289 Mya — about 3 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 3 occurrences288–288 Mya — about 3 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 3 occurrences287–287 Mya — about 3 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 3 occurrences286–286 Mya — about 3 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 3 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 3 occurrences284–284 Mya — about 3 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 3 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 2 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 2 occurrences282–282 Mya — about 2 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 2 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 2 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 2 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 2 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 2 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 2 occurrences278–278 Mya — about 2 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 2 occurrences277–277 Mya — about 2 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 2 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 2 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 2 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290.6 Mya273.9 Mya

61 occurrences of Scacchinella titan on record, most of them in the Permian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

61 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Skinner Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.21°WSkinner Ranch — 30.27°N, 103.33°WSkinner Ranch — 30.34°N, 103.22°WSkinner Ranch — 30.25°N, 103.36°WSkinner Ranch — 30.22°N, 103.39°WCibolo — 29.86°N, 104.32°WHess — 30.37°N, 103.15°WHess — 30.37°N, 103.14°W

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The named rock units Scacchinella titan has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Scacchinella titan and its relatives

Permian

Where Scacchinella titan and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

259 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Scacchinella titan, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 61 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Scacchinella titan

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itScacchinella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1975