Scalaturris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
2 occurrences of Scalaturris 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Scalaturris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scalaturris and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Scalaturris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Acteonella1 site
- Anofia1 site
- Bizarrus incertus1 site
- Cardita beaumonti1 site
- Cerithiidae1 site
- Granocardium kruschi1 site
- Gymnarus fraasi1 site
- Gyrodes amplissima1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Pecten1 site
- Plicatula decipiens1 site
- Plicatula locardi1 site
- Pseudocucullaea lens1 site
- Pseudolimea1 site
- Pterosauria1 site
- Pugnellus1 site
- Strepsidura gracilis1 site
- Tellina1 site
- Trigonarca camerunensis1 site
- Trochus (Solarium)1 site
- Turritella1 site
- Turritella alternans1 site
- Turritella arduissima1 site
- Turritella nodosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Scalaturris, 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- Les gastéropodes du Turonien de la coupe de Belle-vue 3 dans la région de Libreville Sud ausein du bassin côtier gabonais1
- Nouvelles données sur les Mollusques et autres macro-organismes campaniens de Sikoum (Centre-Est du sous bassin de Douala-Cameroun): intérêts bio-chronologiques et paléo-écologiques1
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 content1
Picture of Scalaturris
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Scalaturris 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTurridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brebion 1953