Scutella

Scutella is an extinct genus of sea urchins in the family Scutellidae.

Scutella

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
Sits inside
ScutellidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Clypeasteroida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Clypeasteroida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 22 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 22 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–9.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.5–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya11.63 Mya85 Mya4 Mya

22 occurrences of Scutella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

22 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

14 formations

Gebel Khashab Red Beds — 30.08°N, 31.25°EMarmarica — 29.20°N, 25.52°EUm ad Dahiv — 29.67°N, 17.33°EYsidro — 24.58°N, 112.00°WTumey — 36.55°N, 120.49°WMonte Leon — 49.53°S, 68.36°WAl Faidiyah — 32.69°N, 21.91°EBu Hashish — 30.18°N, 17.24°ECastle Hayne — 35.24°N, 77.20°WChatsworth — 34.20°N, 118.69°WYamaga — 33.90°N, 130.67°EMcBean — 33.54°N, 80.69°WHawthorne — 30.06°N, 84.49°WYazoo — 31.71°N, 87.96°W

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The named rock units Scutella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scutella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scutella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

205 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Scutella, 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

15 references

Each of the 22 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. 3 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 content2

Picture of Scutella

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itScutellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1816