Scutum

No picture of Scutum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Scutum itself, so it was not used. 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 Scutum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArberialesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 26 of 26 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 1 occurrence288–287 Mya — about 1 occurrence287–286 Mya — about 1 occurrence286–284 Mya — about 1 occurrence284–283 Mya — about 1 occurrence283–282 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 1 occurrence264–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–260 Mya — about 1 occurrence260–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–254 Mya — about 1 occurrence254–252 Mya — about 1 occurrence252–251 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences283.3 Mya259.857 Mya290.9 Mya251.1 Mya

26 occurrences of Scutum on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

26 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

8 formations

Raniganj — 23.70°N, 86.30°ERaniganj — 23.90°N, 87.00°EVryheid — 26.50°S, 30.00°EVryheid — 26.50°S, 28.00°EVryheid — 27.50°S, 31.00°EHinjir — 20.95°N, 84.69°EIllawara Coal Measures — 34.40°S, 150.90°EBurngrove — 23.30°S, 148.80°EBarakar — 23.90°N, 87.00°EPachwara — 24.60°N, 87.50°EPali — 24.30°N, 82.00°E

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The named rock units Scutum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scutum and its relatives

Permian

Where Scutum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

315 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Scutum, 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

6 references

Each of the 26 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. 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
Free Standard
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No picture of Scutum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Scutum itself, so it was not used.

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 Scutum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itArberiales through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Plumstead 1952