Scillaelepas

Scillaelepas is a genus of barnacle. Most of the species in the genus are androdioecious and the genus dates back to the Upper Jurassic period.

No picture of Scillaelepas was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Scillaelepas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalanticidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cirripedia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cirripedia
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Cirripedia
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Cirripedia

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 10 of 16 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesMiocene87–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 3 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83.6 Mya20.45 Mya87 Mya15 Mya

16 occurrences of Scillaelepas on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

16 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

7 formations

Red Bluff Tuff — 43.97°S, 176.59°WRed Bluff Tuff — 44.30°S, 176.25°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.82°S, 176.50°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.67°S, 176.53°WGingin Chalk — 31.35°S, 115.90°EToolonga Calcilutite — 27.70°S, 114.21°EMiria Marl — 23.02°S, 114.09°EMiria Marl — 23.23°S, 114.04°EHosking's Chalk — 30.69°S, 115.70°EMiria — 22.88°S, 114.13°EGingin — 31.34°S, 115.90°E

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The named rock units Scillaelepas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scillaelepas and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Scillaelepas and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Scillaelepas, 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

Each of the 16 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 content0

No picture of Scillaelepas was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Scillaelepas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Scillaelepas 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.

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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What may have been alongside itCalanticidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Seguenza 1872)