Scalites peracutum
No picture of Scalites peracutum 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 peracutum, 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 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Scalites peracutum 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
22 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
11 formations
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group8
- Ion Formation · Galena Group2
- Platteville Formation1
- Decorah Shale Formation1
- Cummingsville Formation1
- Prosser Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Scalites peracutum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Scalites peracutum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Scalites peracutum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
213 taxa- Hormotoma gracilis19 sites
- Cyclonema textilis18 sites
- Liospira vitruvia18 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta18 sites
- Tetranota sexcarinata18 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata18 sites
- Vanuxemia18 sites
- Cyrtodonta17 sites
- Cyrtodontula17 sites
- Eunema centralis17 sites
- Eunema concinnula17 sites
- Liospira americana17 sites
- Liospira angustata17 sites
- Lyrodesma17 sites
- Sinuites pervoluta17 sites
- Subulites17 sites
- Clathrospira conica16 sites
- Clathrospira subconica16 sites
- Modiolodon16 sites
- Modiolopsis16 sites
- Orthodesma16 sites
- Plethocardia16 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus16 sites
- Tetranota bidorsata16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Scalites peracutum, 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
3 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota18
- Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia3
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
Each of the 22 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
Media content0
No picture of Scalites peracutum 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 peracutum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scalites peracutum 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.
Keep going
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. (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)