Scalaria

Scalaria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EpitoniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Epitoniidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 84 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 84 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 10 of 84 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 84 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 84 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 84 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 84 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 84 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 84 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 84 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 84 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 84 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 84 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 84 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 4 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 5 occurrences227–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 1 occurrence202–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 3 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 4 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–84 Mya — about 8 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 7 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 7 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 8 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences237 Mya129 ka252 Mya0 Mya

84 occurrences of Scalaria on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

84 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

35 formations

Cassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.63°N, 12.21°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EKirkwood — 39.47°N, 75.35°WKirkwood — 38.94°N, 74.91°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WOkarahia Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.47°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WMilburn Limestone — 46.07°S, 170.00°EMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WConway — 42.58°S, 173.49°EConway — 42.81°S, 173.28°EPromina — 43.95°N, 16.07°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.07°ERaibl — 47.36°N, 11.48°ERaibl — 47.33°N, 11.46°EMungo River — 4.47°N, 9.48°EStraight Cliffs — 37.49°N, 111.89°WStraight Cliffs — 37.64°N, 112.06°W? — 51.15°S, 72.38°W? — 50.60°S, 72.50°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.58°WPerte du Rhône — 46.83°N, 6.52°EBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WCasamayor — 47.72°S, 66.70°WEntre Rios — 33.72°S, 59.25°WMonte Leon — 49.53°S, 68.36°WDakhla — 25.33°N, 30.58°EBruderndorf — 48.47°N, 16.30°ELithothamnium Limestone — 48.47°N, 16.30°E

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The named rock units Scalaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scalaria and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Scalaria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,117 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Scalaria, 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

46 references

Each of the 84 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. 34 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Scalaria

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1801