Tentaculites scalaris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TentaculitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tentaculites
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Tentaculites
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tentaculites
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Tentaculita
Time the record covers
At least 64 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 410.62 Mya.
9 occurrences of Tentaculites scalaris on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician11%
- Silurian33%
- Devonian56%
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
6 formations
- Ivane Horizon Formation3
- Borshchov and Chortkov horizons Formation2
- Öved Sandstone Formation · Oved-Ramsasa Group1
- Chepultepec Formation1
- Dzvenygorod Formation1
- Ohesaare Formation1
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The named rock units Tentaculites scalaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tentaculites scalaris and its relatives
DevonianWhere Tentaculites scalaris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Brachiopoda6 sites
- Trilobita6 sites
- Bivalvia5 sites
- Crinoidea4 sites
- Dicricoconus4 sites
- Ostracoda4 sites
- Alternatus3 sites
- Multiconus3 sites
- Vjalovites3 sites
- Eurypterida2 sites
- Longulatus2 sites
- Pisciform indet.2 sites
- Pisciforma indet.2 sites
- Prolationus2 sites
- Anoigmaichnus soervensis n. sp.1 site
- Aulopora amica1 site
- Birkeniida1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Cardiola interrupta1 site
- Ceratopea grandis1 site
- Collarothyris1 site
- Conocerina1 site
- Conodonta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Tentaculites scalaris, 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
4 references- Tentaculites of the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian of Poland6
- Locality 7:4 Ohesaare Cliff1
- Silurian tentaculitids from Gotland and Scania1
- The oldest known tentaculitid: from the Chepultepec Limestone (Canadian) of Virginia1
Each of the 9 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 content0
No picture of Tentaculites scalaris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Tentaculites scalaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tentaculites scalaris 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 itTentaculites through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Schlotheim 1820