Skolithos bulbus

No picture of Skolithos bulbus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Skolithos bulbus 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SkolithosPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 4.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 520 Mya to 515.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 509.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 8 of 8 occurrencesCambrian539–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–530 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 1 occurrence514–513 Mya — about 1 occurrence513–512 Mya — about 1 occurrence512–511 Mya — about 1 occurrence511–510 Mya — about 1 occurrence510–509 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences520 Mya515.3 Mya539.4 Mya509.1 Mya

8 occurrences of Skolithos bulbus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

8 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

3 formations

Poleta — 37.31°N, 118.11°WHarkless — 37.29°N, 118.13°WDeep Spring — 37.09°N, 118.09°W

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The named rock units Skolithos bulbus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Skolithos bulbus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Skolithos bulbus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Skolithos bulbus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 8 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 Skolithos bulbus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Skolithos bulbus 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.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alpert 1975