Scalites richmondensis
No picture of Scalites richmondensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 richmondensis, 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 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Scalites richmondensis 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
2 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 richmondensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scalites richmondensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Scalites richmondensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Batostomella2 sites
- Ambonychia1 site
- Ambonychia obesa1 site
- Archinacella indianensis1 site
- Beloitoceras amoenum1 site
- Bucania simulatrix1 site
- Byssonychia richmondensis1 site
- Ceraurus1 site
- Coeloclema1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Cuneamya miamiensis1 site
- Cyclonema bilix1 site
- Cyrtodontula1 site
- Flexicalymene meeki1 site
- Gorbyoceras hammelli1 site
- Grewingkia canadensis1 site
- Halloporidae1 site
- Hebertella1 site
- Heterotrypa1 site
- Holopea1 site
- Holtedahlina1 site
- Holtedahlina sulcata1 site
- Homotrypa1 site
- Ischyrodonta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Scalites richmondensis, 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
2 references- Comparative geographic and environmental diversity dynamics of gastropods and bivalves during the Ordovician Radiation (M.S. thesis, University of Cincinnati)1
- The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota1
Each of the 2 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 richmondensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 richmondensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scalites richmondensis 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. (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)