Pseudoscalites elegantissimus

Pseudoscalites elegantissimus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudoscalitesPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Littorinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Littorinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Littorinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic238–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233.6 Mya211.18 Mya237.6 Mya205.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Pseudoscalites elegantissimus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

3 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

Cassian — 46.63°N, 11.88°EMartin Bridge Limestone — 46.33°N, 116.73°W

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

Pseudoscalites elegantissimus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Pseudoscalites elegantissimus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

296 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pseudoscalites elegantissimus, 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

Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pseudoscalites elegantissimus

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No 3D scan of Pseudoscalites elegantissimus 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 itPseudoscalites through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kittl 1892