Scaphella

Scaphella is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Scaphella

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
VolutidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 6 of 115 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 25 of 115 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 13 of 115 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 115 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 32 of 115 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 115 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 115 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 5 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 11 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 6 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 11 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 17 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

115 occurrences of Scaphella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

115 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

45 formations

Porters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.57°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WPorters Creek — 32.23°N, 88.02°WPorters Creek — 31.92°N, 87.08°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.93°N, 82.05°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.10°N, 21.80°ETamiami — 28.29°N, 81.41°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WShark River — 40.20°N, 74.17°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.61°N, 76.51°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WShark Hole Point — 9.06°N, 81.79°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 37.02°N, 76.58°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WPendleton Ferry — 31.47°N, 93.75°WPendleton Ferry — 31.74°N, 93.40°WPendleton Ferry — 32.06°N, 93.02°WManasquan — 39.93°N, 74.75°WManasquan — 40.20°N, 74.17°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WNanafalia — 31.82°N, 86.62°WNanafalia — 32.25°N, 87.77°WCoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°EHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.52°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WBranden Clay — 57.27°N, 9.73°EBranden Clay — 56.80°N, 9.04°ELillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EClayton — 31.98°N, 87.22°WNaheola — 31.99°N, 87.29°W

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The named rock units Scaphella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scaphella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scaphella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,438 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Scaphella, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

42 references

Each of the 115 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. 30 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 content3

Picture of Scaphella

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
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CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Scaphella (Scaphella) junonia

Photogrammetry

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Scaphella dohrni · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:196226-Mollusca

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Swainson 1832)