Sculptella angustilingua
No picture of Sculptella angustilingua was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Sculptella angustilingua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SculptellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 1.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458 Mya and 456.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Sculptella angustilingua 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Sculptella angustilingua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sculptella angustilingua and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sculptella angustilingua and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Pseudoasaphus limatus2 sites
- Sculptella nonscripta2 sites
- Sculptella scripta2 sites
- Sculptella scriptoides2 sites
- Atractopyge1 site
- Cyrtodontula subtruncata1 site
- Lituites lituus1 site
- Ogmasaphus kiaeri1 site
- Ogmasaphus multistriatus1 site
- Remopleurides1 site
- Telephina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Sculptella angustilingua, 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 referenceEach 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
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No picture of Sculptella angustilingua was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Sculptella angustilingua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sculptella angustilingua 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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What may have been alongside itSculptella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nikolaisen 1983