Scalaria varicostata
No picture of Scalaria varicostata 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 Scalaria varicostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScalariaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 89.8 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Scalaria varicostata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Scalaria varicostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Scalaria varicostata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Scalaria varicostata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Inoperna flagellifera2 sites
- Trigonarca camerunensis2 sites
- Turritella harborti2 sites
- Acteonella1 site
- Agelasina plenodonta1 site
- Aphrodina (Mesocallista) quenseli1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Cardita barroneti1 site
- Cardita beaumonti1 site
- Cardium (Protocardia) pauli1 site
- Cardium perobliquum1 site
- Cataceramus bantu1 site
- Corbula1 site
- Drilluta biplicata1 site
- Fusus climacodes1 site
- Gymnarus fraasi1 site
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) tenellus1 site
- Helicaulax latealata1 site
- Inoceramus niger1 site
- Lima (Plagiostoma) pseudohoernesi1 site
- Linuparus africanus1 site
- Liopistha ventricosa1 site
- Mecaster fourneli1 site
- Metatissotia redtenbacheri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Scalaria varicostata, 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 referencesEach 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. 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 Scalaria varicostata 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 Scalaria varicostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scalaria varicostata 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 itScalaria through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Riedel 1933