Scolithus

No picture of Scolithus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Scolithus 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 Scolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
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Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 1 of 1 occurrenceOrdovician471–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471.8 Mya456.8 Mya

1 occurrence of Scolithus 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

1 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

1 formation

Aylmer — 45.37°N, 75.70°W

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

Scolithus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Scolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Scolithus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Scolithus 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 Scolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Scolithus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1847