Scalenocystites strimplei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScalenocystitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Scalenocystites strimplei on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
4 formations
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group3
- Cummingsville Formation1
- Prosser Limestone Formation1
- Stewartville Formation1
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The named rock units Scalenocystites strimplei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scalenocystites strimplei and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Scalenocystites strimplei and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Cremacrinus5 sites
- Cupulocrinus4 sites
- Cyclocystoides halli4 sites
- Edrioaster bigsbyi4 sites
- Glyptocrinus4 sites
- Myeinocystites crossmani4 sites
- Promopalaeaster4 sites
- Quienquecaudex springeri4 sites
- Schuchertia4 sites
- Tanaocystis4 sites
- <Cincinnaticrinid>3 sites
- Abludoglyptocrinus ornatus3 sites
- Amygdalocystites3 sites
- Carabocrinus3 sites
- Carabocrinus radiatus3 sites
- Cremacrinus guttenbergensis3 sites
- Ectenocrinus simplex3 sites
- Glyptocystites3 sites
- Hudsonaster3 sites
- Hybocrinus conicus3 sites
- Pleurocystites strimplei3 sites
- Ptychocrinus3 sites
- Pycnocrinus3 sites
- Rhaphanocrinus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Scalenocystites strimplei, 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
3 references- Upper Mississippi Valley Champlainian and Cincinnatian echinoderms4
- The Wagner Quarry cystoid bed: a study in Prosser (Sherwood) paleoecology1
- Scalenocystites strimplei, a new Middle Ordovician belemnocystitid solute from Minnesota1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Scalenocystites strimplei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Scalenocystites strimplei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scalenocystites strimplei 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 itScalenocystites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kolata 1973