Scalites jonesi
No picture of Scalites jonesi 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 Scalites jonesi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScalitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Scalites jonesi 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Scalites jonesi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scalites jonesi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Scalites jonesi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Malayaspira rugosa3 sites
- Eroicaspira simulatrix2 sites
- Euchasma mytiliforme2 sites
- Scalites keizanensis2 sites
- Teiichispira zonata2 sites
- Discoceras1 site
- Endoceras1 site
- Euchasma jonesi1 site
- Lophonema costata1 site
- Malayaspira1 site
- Ormoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Scalites jonesi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- On some Ordovician fossils from northern Malaya and her adjacence3
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
Each of the 4 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 Scalites jonesi 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 Scalites jonesi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scalites jonesi was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itScalites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kobayashi 1959)