Australoscutellum
No picture of Australoscutellum 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 Australoscutellum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StyginidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Styginidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
2 occurrences of Australoscutellum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
2 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Australoscutellum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Australoscutellum and its relatives
SilurianWhere Australoscutellum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Bivalvia2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Nautiloidea2 sites
- Staurocephalus2 sites
- Anthozoa1 site
- Atrypina1 site
- Atrypoidea1 site
- Barrandina1 site
- Batocara1 site
- Beyrichiacea1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Chonetidae1 site
- Coelospira1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Craniops1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Crotalocephalus silverdalensis1 site
- Decoroproetus1 site
- Dendroidea1 site
- Dicoelosia1 site
- Dolerorthis1 site
- Dudleyaspis1 site
- Epelidoaegiria minuta1 site
- Favosites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Australoscutellum, 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- Australian communities1
- Silurian trilobites from near Canberra and some related forms from the Yass Basin1
Each of the 2 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 content0
No picture of Australoscutellum 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 Australoscutellum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Australoscutellum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStyginidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chatterton and Campbell 1980