Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus

Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus

University of Washington Burke Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Scaphander (Mirascapha)PBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cylichnidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cylichnidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cylichnidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 8 of 74 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 74 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 49 of 74 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 74 occurrencesOligocene95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 7 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 7 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 7 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 7 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 7 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89.8 Mya33.9 Mya95 Mya26 Mya

74 occurrences of Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

74 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

24 formations

Martinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.61°WMeganos — 37.92°N, 121.77°WMeganos — 37.91°N, 121.74°WMeganos — 37.85°N, 121.64°WRoseburg — 43.31°N, 123.12°WRoseburg — 43.01°N, 123.91°WRoseburg — 43.24°N, 123.42°WSantiago — 33.77°N, 117.68°WSantiago — 33.76°N, 117.77°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 118.75°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 118.74°WScripps — 32.79°N, 117.18°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.12°WChico — 39.66°N, 121.58°WChico — 39.64°N, 121.56°WChico — 38.72°N, 121.21°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.91°N, 119.04°WCapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°WCapay — 38.77°N, 122.20°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.70°WWilliams — 33.70°N, 117.63°WLadd — 33.72°N, 117.63°WSanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.74°WSnatolskaya — 58.50°N, 159.00°ETepetate — 31.28°N, 116.40°WSilverado — 33.87°N, 117.71°WCrescent — 47.73°N, 122.85°WDomengine — 36.20°N, 120.50°WLas Virgenes — 34.25°N, 118.74°WTyee — 42.99°N, 123.87°WUnel — 61.37°N, 164.04°ETukwila — 47.48°N, 122.25°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WLincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°W

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The named rock units Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

767 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus, 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

26 references

Each of the 74 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. 14 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 Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus

Source
GBIF
Credit
University of Washington Burke Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)