Scalina

Scalina

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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 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 183 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 183 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 71 of 183 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 24 of 183 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 53 of 183 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 28 of 183 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 183 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 17 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 23 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 17 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 11 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 8 occurrences30–27 Mya — about 8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 12 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 17 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 7 occurrences10–7.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.7–5.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.3–2.8 Mya — about 23 occurrences2.8–392 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences66 Mya3.6 Mya74 Mya392 ka

183 occurrences of Scalina on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

183 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

68 formations

Eugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.04°N, 123.04°WEugene — 44.98°N, 123.21°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.53°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.81°WStepovak — 55.46°N, 160.98°WStepovak — 55.65°N, 160.27°WStepovak — 55.66°N, 160.23°WStepovak — 55.64°N, 159.67°WCoaledo — 43.34°N, 124.38°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WChagres Sandstone — 9.28°N, 80.05°WChagres Sandstone — 9.60°N, 79.53°WCanoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°WPisco — 14.35°S, 75.90°WPisco — 14.80°S, 75.38°WPisco — 15.45°S, 74.87°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 30.11°N, 97.32°WKincaid — 31.36°N, 96.04°WQuimper — 48.00°N, 122.83°WQuimper — 47.95°N, 122.68°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.25°WReklaw — 30.81°N, 96.65°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WBohio — 9.18°N, 79.88°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WTaime — 4.22°S, 81.17°WTaime — 4.32°S, 81.25°WChilcatay — 14.20°S, 76.12°WChilcatay — 14.76°S, 75.51°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°W

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The named rock units Scalina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scalina and its relatives

Eocene

Where Scalina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,123 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 137 sites for Scalina, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

52 references

Each of the 183 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. 40 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 content1

Picture of Scalina

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

No 3D scan of Scalina 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 itEpitoniidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1865)