Microscutellum

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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 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 379 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 11 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 9 of 11 occurrencesDevonian428–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 4 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 1 occurrence409–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422.7 Mya382.31 Mya427.7 Mya378 Mya

11 occurrences of Microscutellum 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

11 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

2 formations

Fukata — 33.53°N, 133.22°ESolonchatskaya — 51.77°N, 59.10°E

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The named rock units Microscutellum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microscutellum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Microscutellum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Microscutellum, 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

Each of the 11 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 Microscutellum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microscutellum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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What may have been alongside itStyginidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Snajdr 1960