Scaphander jugularis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScaphanderPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cylichnidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cylichnidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cylichnidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
20 occurrences of Scaphander jugularis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
20 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
8 formations
- Vaqueros Formation9
- Olcese Formation4
- Round Mountain Silt Formation2
- Branch Canyon Formation1
- Pancho Rico Formation1
- Monterey Formation1
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The named rock units Scaphander jugularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scaphander jugularis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Scaphander jugularis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
335 taxa- Calyptraea filosa10 sites
- Turritella ocoyana10 sites
- Balanus9 sites
- Bruclarkia barkeriana7 sites
- Neverita (Glossaulax) andersoni7 sites
- Clementia conradiana6 sites
- Lyropecten miguelensis6 sites
- Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis6 sites
- Anomia vaquerosensis5 sites
- Bittium topangensis5 sites
- Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana5 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) richthofeni5 sites
- Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus5 sites
- Crepidula rostralis5 sites
- Oliva (Oliva) californica5 sites
- Panopea generosa5 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) lincolnensis5 sites
- Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus andersoni5 sites
- Turritella temblorensis5 sites
- Antillophos posunculensis4 sites
- Califrapana vaquerosensis4 sites
- Crenomytilus expansus4 sites
- Dallocardia vaquerosense4 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinella) merriami4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Scaphander jugularis, 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
7 references- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology8
- Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California7
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Miocene Saddleback Valley Limestone, Orange County, Southern California1
- Geology of the Northern Channel Islands1
- Pancho Rico Formation, Salinas Valley1
- The chronologic and geolographic range of desmostylians1
- Geology of southeastern Ventura basin, Los Angeles County, California1
Each of the 20 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. 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 jugularis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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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What may have been alongside itScaphander through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1855)