Scaliola

Scaliola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Scaliolidae.

Scaliola

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScaliolidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Scaliolidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Scaliolidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Scaliolidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Scaliola on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

16 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

7 formations

Sakishima — 34.37°N, 136.82°EDampier Limestone — 25.53°S, 113.48°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°W

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The named rock units Scaliola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scaliola and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scaliola and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

783 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Scaliola, 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

9 references

Each of the 16 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. 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 Scaliola

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itScaliolidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams 1860