Skolithos linearis

No picture of Skolithos linearis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Skolithos linearis 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SkolithosPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 509 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Cambrian — about 3 of 8 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 2 of 8 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 8 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 8 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 8 occurrences550–531 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences531–513 Mya — about 2 occurrences513–495 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences495–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences509.7 Mya129 ka550 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Skolithos linearis 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

5 formations

Hardeberga — 55.00°N, 15.07°EGrebes Nest Point — 47.64°N, 52.98°WOchre Cove — 47.66°N, 52.94°WHarkless — 37.09°N, 118.11°WYacoraite — 23.63°S, 65.40°W

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The named rock units Skolithos linearis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Skolithos linearis and its relatives

Cambrian

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

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Skolithos linearis, 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 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. 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

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No picture of Skolithos linearis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Skolithos linearis 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 Skolithos linearis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Haldeman 1840)