Scaldianella
No picture of Scaldianella 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 Scaldianella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CavellinidaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Platycopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Platycopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Platycopida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Scaldianella on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
16 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Scaldianella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Scaldianella and its relatives
SilurianWhere Scaldianella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Protochonetes ludloviensis12 sites
- Hebellum11 sites
- Beyrichia10 sites
- Ceramopora10 sites
- Fuchsella amygdalina10 sites
- Leioclema10 sites
- Orthoceras10 sites
- Salopina lunata10 sites
- Serpulites10 sites
- Craniops9 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchia nucula8 sites
- Cytherellina7 sites
- Dayia navicula7 sites
- Loxonema obsoleta7 sites
- Michelinoceras7 sites
- Oriostoma coralli7 sites
- Hyolithes6 sites
- Nuculites6 sites
- Rugadiscina rugata6 sites
- Encrinurus5 sites
- Isorthis5 sites
- Kionoceras5 sites
- Lingula5 sites
- Calymene4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Scaldianella, 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
3 references- Faunas from the Upper Silurian (Upper Ludlovian) in the Ludlow-Much Wenlock District, England10
- Ostracode fauna, stratigraphy and definition of the Beyrichienkalk sequence4
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia2
Each of the 16 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 content0
No picture of Scaldianella 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 Scaldianella, 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCavellinidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.