Scaphiocoelia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MutationellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Scaphiocoelia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
12 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
5 formations
- Belen Formation3
- Gydo Formation · Bokkeveld Group2
- Icla Formation2
- Furnas Sandstone Formation1
- Vila Vila Formation1
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The named rock units Scaphiocoelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Scaphiocoelia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Scaphiocoelia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Australocoelia9 sites
- Australospirifer7 sites
- Cryptonella4 sites
- Schuchertella4 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Burmeisteria3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Tentaculites3 sites
- Ambocoelia2 sites
- Anchiopella2 sites
- Asterozoa2 sites
- Australostrophia2 sites
- Conularia2 sites
- Grammysia2 sites
- Meristelloides2 sites
- Mutationella2 sites
- Nuculana2 sites
- Nuculites2 sites
- Ophiocrinus2 sites
- Orbiculoidea2 sites
- Orthis2 sites
- Orthoceras2 sites
- Orthotheca2 sites
- Palaeoneilo2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Scaphiocoelia, 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
5 references- Devonian stratigraphy and brachiopod paleontology of Bolivia. part B: Spiriferida and Terebratulida6
- The Malvinokaffric realm in the Devonian of Brazil2
- Preliminary catalogue and report on the biostratigraphy and palaeogeographic distribution of the Bokkeveld fauna2
- First occurrence of Scaphiocoelia (Brachiopoda; Terebratulida) in the Early Devonian of the Parana Basin, Brazil1
- Die Trilobiten aus dem Devon Boliviens und ihre Bedeutung fuer Stratigraphie und Tiergeographie1
Each of the 12 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
Media content1
Picture of Scaphiocoelia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Scaphiocoelia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itMutationellinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.