Scorpionida

Scorpionida

Chris huh · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
scorpionPBDB
Sits inside
ArthropodaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda

Time the record covers

At least 399 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 6 occurrencesSilurian — about 4 of 6 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences452–437 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences437–422 Mya — about 2 occurrences422–408 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences204–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–175 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences175–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences44–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432.9 Mya33.9 Mya452 Mya15 Mya

6 occurrences of Scorpionida on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

6 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

6 formations

Bertie — 43.45°N, 74.95°WReservoir — 56.00°N, 3.00°WPatrick Burn — 55.65°N, 3.92°WHogklint — 57.57°N, 18.30°ENavajo Sandstone — 39.88°N, 107.91°WCoatzingo — 18.59°N, 97.93°W

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

Scorpionida and its relatives

Silurian

Where Scorpionida and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Scorpionida, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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 Scorpionida

Credit
Chris huh
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Scorpionida 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 itArthropoda through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Latreille 1817)