Scaphander interruptus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScaphanderPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cylichnidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cylichnidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cylichnidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 1.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 774 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Scaphander interruptus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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 Scaphander interruptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scaphander interruptus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Scaphander interruptus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Adelomelon ancilla1 site
- Bela paesleri1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Chorus giganteus1 site
- Cirripedia1 site
- Cyclocardia velutinus1 site
- Darina solenoides1 site
- Decapoda1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Ennucula grayi1 site
- Ensis macha1 site
- Epitonium (Nitidiscala) magellanicus1 site
- Euspira guamblinensis1 site
- Fusitriton magellanicus1 site
- Macoma inornata1 site
- Magellania venosa1 site
- Malletia chilensis1 site
- Mytilus1 site
- Nassarius taeniolatus1 site
- Pandora cistula1 site
- Retrotapes exalbida1 site
- Sassia leucostomoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Scaphander interruptus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Scaphander interruptus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Scaphander interruptus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itScaphander through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1889