Scaevogyra

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScaevogyrinaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 493.5 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 477.1 Mya.
8 occurrences of Scaevogyra 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- Cambrian63%
- Ordovician38%
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
- Wan-wan-kou Formation2
- Potosi Formation2
- Trempealeau Formation1
- Minaret Formation · Heritage Group1
- Franconia Formation1
- Fengshan Formation1
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The named rock units Scaevogyra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scaevogyra and its relatives
CambrianWhere Scaevogyra and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Plethopeltis4 sites
- Calvinella2 sites
- Hypseloconus bessemerense2 sites
- Proplina suttoni2 sites
- Rasettia2 sites
- Apoptopegma craddocki1 site
- Archinacella1 site
- Archinacella wanwanensis1 site
- Aremellia batteni1 site
- Berkeia typica1 site
- Bipulvina liaoningensis1 site
- Burenoceras1 site
- Camaraspis berkeyi1 site
- Camaraspis convexus1 site
- Cheilocephalus1 site
- Clisospira niuhsintaiensis1 site
- Cosminoconella runnegari1 site
- Dicellomus politus1 site
- Dikelocephalus1 site
- Ectenoceras curvatum1 site
- Ectenoceras ruedemanni1 site
- Ectenoceras subcurvatum1 site
- Ellesmeroceras1 site
- Ellsworthoconus andersoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Scaevogyra, 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- Missouri Upper Cambrian Monoplacophora previously considered cephalopods2
- Faunal study of the Wanwanian (basal Ordovician) series with special notes on the Ribeiridae and the Ellesmereoceroids2
- Some Late Cambrian molluscs from Liaoning Province, China1
- Cambrian Mollusca from the Minaret Formation, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica1
- Cambrian strata of Wisconsin1
- Geology of the St. Croix Dalles, part 3. Paleontology1
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
Media content1

Picture of Scaevogyra
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Scaevogyra 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 itScaevogyrinae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whitfield 1878