Scoyenia

Scoyenia is an ichnogenus found in paleozoic-mesozoic strata in North America. It appears to be the preserved remains of arthropod feeding burrows.

No picture of Scoyenia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Scoyenia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IchnofossilsPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 190 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Permian — about 2 of 31 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 31 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 15 of 31 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 31 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 31 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 31 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences295–287 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences287–279 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences279–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264–256 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences256–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–240 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–232 Mya — about 2 occurrences232–225 Mya — about 4 occurrences225–217 Mya — about 4 occurrences217–209 Mya — about 4 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 2 occurrences201–194 Mya — about 3 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–100 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274.4 Mya83.6 Mya295 Mya62 Mya

31 occurrences of Scoyenia 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

31 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

23 formations

Passaic — 40.83°N, 74.11°WPassaic — 40.75°N, 74.19°WPassaic — 40.55°N, 75.07°WGettysburg — 40.15°N, 76.75°WGettysburg — 40.00°N, 77.06°WAbu Agag — 23.46°N, 33.02°EAbu Agag — 23.50°N, 33.06°EMoenave — 37.09°N, 113.56°WMoenave — 37.10°N, 113.53°WSloan Canyon — 36.94°N, 103.15°WSloan Canyon — 36.89°N, 103.35°WJiaguan — 29.36°N, 103.94°EPekin — 35.50°N, 79.40°WPekin — 35.56°N, 79.28°WHermit Shale — 36.07°N, 112.13°WHasandong — 34.93°N, 128.07°EPlottier — 37.06°S, 69.38°WLithofacies Association II — 35.87°N, 78.90°WMajiacun — 33.30°N, 111.48°EXiaoyan — 29.81°N, 118.03°EZagaje — 51.14°N, 20.69°EBaranów — 51.03°N, 20.87°ENugget Sandstone — 40.76°N, 108.89°WSheep Pen Sandstone — 37.01°N, 102.96°WPopo Agie — 40.45°N, 109.29°WTimezgadiouine — 30.81°N, 9.10°WVolksrust Shale — 27.86°S, 29.70°EChaunaca — 19.06°S, 65.26°WTuckahoe — 37.52°N, 77.63°WWolfville — 45.40°N, 63.96°W

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

Scoyenia and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

189 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Scoyenia, 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

25 references

Each of the 31 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. 13 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

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No picture of Scoyenia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Scoyenia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Scoyenia 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

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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. White 1929