Scotoharpes

Scotoharpes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HarpetidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Harpetidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Harpetidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 84 occurrencesOrdovician — about 59 of 84 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 25 of 84 occurrencesSilurian488–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences484–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–477 Mya — about 1 occurrence477–475 Mya — about 2 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 2 occurrences473–470 Mya — about 9 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 12 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 4 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 3 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 3 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 4 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 3 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 3 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–439 Mya — about 4 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 6 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 5 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 5 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–426 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences477.1 Mya425 Mya488 Mya421 Mya

84 occurrences of Scotoharpes 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

84 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

44 formations

Volkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°EWether Law Linn — 56.00°N, 3.00°WWether Law Linn — 55.81°N, 3.35°WSan Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 31.00°S, 69.00°WOutram — 52.88°N, 118.08°WCape Schuchert — 77.51°N, 66.65°WCape Schuchert — 81.00°N, 65.00°WSkelgill — 52.67°N, 2.00°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.65°WEdinburg — 36.88°N, 81.68°WEdinburg — 37.74°N, 79.51°WBalclatchie — 55.24°N, 4.78°WKildare Limestone — 53.20°N, 6.92°WFlorentine Valley Limestone — 42.00°S, 146.00°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EMiaopo — 33.00°N, 111.00°EHonghuayuan — 33.00°N, 111.00°ELengshuigou — 23.00°N, 104.00°ETangtou — 32.00°N, 119.00°ERacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WSamuelsen Høj — 80.00°N, 22.00°WPentamerus Bjerg — 81.00°N, 65.00°WYeli — 40.00°N, 119.00°ERacine Dolomite — 43.05°N, 88.02°WBlack Bog — 35.00°S, 149.00°EWalker Volcanics — 35.00°S, 149.00°EPengjiayuan — 30.77°N, 111.33°E

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The named rock units Scotoharpes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scotoharpes and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Scotoharpes and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,020 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Scotoharpes, 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

48 references

Each of the 84 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. 36 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Scotoharpes

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Lamont 1948