Scalina retifera
No picture of Scalina retifera 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 Scalina retifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScalinaPBDB
- 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 6.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Scalina retifera on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Scalina retifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scalina retifera and its relatives
MioceneWhere Scalina retifera and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Amusium1 site
- Arca1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Aurinia (Aurinia) dubia1 site
- Boreotrophon triangulatus1 site
- Cancellaria1 site
- Cochlespira (Ancistrosyrinx) cedonulli1 site
- Conus spurius1 site
- Dallium dalli1 site
- Dentalium rimosum1 site
- Euspira heros1 site
- Glyphostoma (Glyphostoma) gabbi1 site
- Hindsiclava henekeni1 site
- Limopsis aguilari1 site
- Marginella1 site
- Metulella fusiformis1 site
- Mitra1 site
- Naticarius canrena1 site
- Neadmete modesta1 site
- Niso1 site
- Nuculana acuta1 site
- Oliva subplicata1 site
- Olivella mutica1 site
- Pecten cf. glyptus cactaceus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Scalina retifera, 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 1 occurrence 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 Scalina retifera 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 Scalina retifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scalina retifera 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 itScalina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1889)