Scalites

No picture of Scalites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Scalites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RaphistomatidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Euomphalina
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Euomphalina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Euomphalina
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 470.3 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 50 of 53 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 53 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 53 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–469 Mya — about 5 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 3 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 4 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 4 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 3 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 5 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 5 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 5 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 5 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–422 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences470.3 Mya422.7 Mya472 Mya419 Mya

53 occurrences of Scalites 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

53 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

29 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WLower Setul — 6.42°N, 99.95°ELower Setul — 6.37°N, 99.97°ELower Setul — 6.44°N, 99.81°EDay Point — 44.87°N, 73.48°WDay Point — 44.68°N, 73.45°WTodon — 35.80°N, 128.72°EIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDuwibong — 37.19°N, 128.74°EWhitewater — 39.83°N, 84.89°WVarnitsa — 48.85°N, 26.20°EVarnitsa Suite — 48.52°N, 26.32°ETrubchin Suite — 48.50°N, 26.30°EPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WPort Clarence Limestone — 65.50°N, 165.92°WTsuibon — 40.12°N, 128.12°EUpper Whitewater — 38.78°N, 85.36°WTable Point — 50.37°N, 57.54°WMajiagou — 39.42°N, 121.75°ESunblood — 60.42°N, 126.85°W

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The named rock units Scalites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scalites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Scalites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

394 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Scalites, 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

16 references

Each of the 53 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. 4 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 content0

No picture of Scalites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Scalites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

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

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What may have been alongside itRaphistomatidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Emmons 1842)