Scutula bipennata
Scutula is a genus of lichenicolous fungi in the family Ramalinaceae.
No picture of Scutula bipennata was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Scutula bipennata 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.
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 375.2 Mya and 368.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Scutula bipennata on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Scutula bipennata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scutula bipennata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Scutula bipennata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Ozarkodina3 sites
- Palmatolepis3 sites
- Archaesphaera2 sites
- Falcodus2 sites
- Ozarkodina elegans2 sites
- Scutula venusta2 sites
- Spathognathodus2 sites
- Ancyrodella1 site
- Ancyrodella curvata1 site
- Ancyrodella nodosa1 site
- Ancyrognathus1 site
- Aristophyllum menyouense1 site
- Belodella1 site
- Columnaria1 site
- Frechastraea1 site
- Hexagonaria davidsoni1 site
- Icriodus alternatus1 site
- Icriodus expansus1 site
- Icriodus subterminus1 site
- Icriodus symmetricus1 site
- Kuangxiastraea1 site
- Mixogonaria1 site
- Oulodus1 site
- Palmatolepis gigas1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Scutula bipennata, 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
2 references- A lower Famennian fauna from the top of the reefoid limestones of Mokra (Moravia, Czechoslovakia)2
- Corals and conodonts from the Late Devonian Mostyn Vale Formation, Keepit, New South Wales1
Each of the 3 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 Scutula bipennata was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Scutula bipennata 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 Scutula bipennata 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Scutula”
- 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 itFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.