Scalaria fenestrata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScalariaPBDB
- 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 most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Scalaria fenestrata on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
2 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Scalaria fenestrata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scalaria fenestrata and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Scalaria fenestrata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Anoplophora recta2 sites
- Atreta intusstriata2 sites
- Cassianella sturi2 sites
- Cassianochaetetes gnemidius2 sites
- Colospongia dubia2 sites
- Dentalium arctum2 sites
- Echinoidea2 sites
- Gervillia bouei2 sites
- Gruenewaldia woehrmanni2 sites
- Heminajas fissidentata2 sites
- Lingularia tenuissima2 sites
- Loxonema binodosa2 sites
- Macrodon strigilatum2 sites
- Melania multistriata2 sites
- Montlivaultia tirolensis2 sites
- Myophoriopis rosthorni2 sites
- Nucula subaequilatera2 sites
- Palaeoneilo tirolensis2 sites
- Pecten hallensis2 sites
- Peronidella loretzi2 sites
- Placunopsis rothpletzi2 sites
- Selachii2 sites
- Sinucosta gregaria2 sites
- Thecospira guembeli2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Scalaria fenestrata, 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 referenceEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Scalaria fenestrata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Scalaria fenestrata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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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What may have been alongside itScalaria through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Wöhrmann 1889