Scylla

Scylla

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
NecronectinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Portunoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 31 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 22 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 31 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Scylla on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

15 formations

Cercado — 19.46°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.09°WPirabas — 1.18°S, 47.22°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WGurabo — 19.54°N, 71.30°WDam — 25.98°N, 49.39°EJuana Diaz — 18.02°N, 66.85°WTsuma — 32.13°N, 131.42°EArcadia — 30.70°N, 84.86°WSekinobana — 37.21°N, 136.69°EMaja — 26.35°N, 123.57°EAkeyo — 35.38°N, 137.23°EYamanouchi — 35.52°N, 137.08°ETubara — 10.87°N, 74.98°WSan Sebastian — 18.34°N, 66.95°WJuana Diaz — 18.02°N, 66.85°WSan Gregorio — 11.33°N, 70.27°W

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The named rock units Scylla 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.

Scylla and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scylla and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

328 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Scylla, 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

16 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. 4 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 Scylla

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itNecronectinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. De Haan 1833