Scoloparia

Scoloparia is an extinct genus of procolophonid parareptile from the Triassic of Canada. Fossils have been found in the Early Triassic to Norian-age Wolfville Formation in Nova Scotia, Canada. Like many Triassic procolophonids, Scoloparia has expanded molar-like teeth that indicate that the animal was likely herbivorous.

No picture of Scoloparia 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 Scoloparia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeptopleuroninaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227.3 Mya205.7 Mya237.7 Mya200.7 Mya

3 occurrences of Scoloparia on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

3 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

Wolfville — 45.15°N, 64.27°WWolfville — 45.30°N, 63.75°W

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The named rock units Scoloparia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scoloparia and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Scoloparia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Scoloparia, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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 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 Scoloparia 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 Scoloparia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Scoloparia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itLeptopleuroninae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sues and Baird 1998