Scytoneura elliptica

Scytoneura elliptica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScytoneuraPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At most 7.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesPermian275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274.9 Mya266.4 Mya

6 occurrences of Scytoneura elliptica 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

6 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

1 formation

Iva-Gora Beds — 65.55°N, 43.67°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.60°N, 43.62°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.59°N, 42.57°E

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The named rock units Scytoneura elliptica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scytoneura elliptica and its relatives

Permian

Where Scytoneura elliptica and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

221 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Scytoneura elliptica, 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

Each 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

Media content1

Picture of Scytoneura elliptica

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Scytoneura elliptica 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 itScytoneura through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martynov 1935