Scalpellum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScalpellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Cirripedia
Time the record covers
At least 110 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.
32 occurrences of Scalpellum on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
32 occurrencesThese 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
14 formations
- Peruc-Koryčany Formation6
- Dakota Formation3
- Vincentown Formation · Rancocas Group2
- Ottnang Formation2
- Woodbine Formation1
- Ripley Formation1
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The named rock units Scalpellum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Scalpellum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Scalpellum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
698 taxa- Spirorbis6 sites
- Anomia5 sites
- Membranipora5 sites
- Nuculana5 sites
- Serpula5 sites
- Arca4 sites
- Cardium4 sites
- Caryocorbula4 sites
- Cuspidaria4 sites
- Cymbophora4 sites
- Fulpia4 sites
- Glomerula4 sites
- Metopaster4 sites
- Nucula4 sites
- Spondylus4 sites
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) reticulata3 sites
- Anatimya virgata3 sites
- Ancistrocrania3 sites
- Anthophyllum3 sites
- Atreta3 sites
- Barbatia3 sites
- Cheilostomata3 sites
- Craginia3 sites
- Crassostrea3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Scalpellum, 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
15 references- Die Crustaceen der böhmischen Kreideformation7
- Some new species of the cirripede genus Scalpellum from British Cretaceous rocks4
- Lepadiform and scalpelliform barnacles from the Oligocene and Miocene of the Paratethys Sea3
- Late Cretaceous nautilid beaks from near-shore/shallow water deposits of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic)3
- Paleontology of the Greenhorn cylcothem (Cretaceous: late Cenomanian to middle Turonian) at Black Mesa, northeastern Arizona3
- A new cirripede from the Cenomanian Chalk Marl of Cambridge3
- A fauna da Idade do Ferro e da Época Romana de Monte Molião (Lagos, Algarve): continuidades e rupturas na dieta alimentar1
- Macrofossils from the Vincentown Formation (Paleocene) of New Jersey1
- Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary1
- Eocene Balanidae of Florida, Including a New Genus and Species with a Unique Plan of "Turtle-Barnacle" Organization1
- Larger invertebrate fossils of the Woodbine formation (Cenomanian) of Texas1
- Kalken paa Saltholm1
Each of the 32 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. 3 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 content1
Picture of Scalpellum
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Daiju Azuma
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Scalpellum 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 itScalpellinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach 1818