Scenella compressa

No picture of Scenella compressa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Scenella compressa itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Scenella compressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScenellaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Scenella
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Scenella
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Scenella
Vision
blindPBDB, for Scenellidae

Time the record covers

At least 2.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 451 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya.

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18 occurrences of Scenella compressa on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

18 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

10 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 44.98°N, 93.27°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNachusa — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°W

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The named rock units Scenella compressa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Scenella compressa and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Scenella compressa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Scenella compressa, 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

2 references

Each of the 18 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 content0

No picture of Scenella compressa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Scenella compressa itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Scenella compressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Scenella compressa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itScenella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Scofield 1897