Scaphella aegyptiaca
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScaphellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
2 occurrences of Scaphella aegyptiaca on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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 Scaphella aegyptiaca 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.
Scaphella aegyptiaca and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Scaphella aegyptiaca and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Aturia praeziczac1 site
- Axinus cretaceus1 site
- Carcharias vincenti1 site
- Cerithium abietiforme1 site
- Cimomia desertora1 site
- Cinulia cretacea1 site
- Cinulia ptahis1 site
- Cypricardia1 site
- Dicroloma1 site
- Eulima wanneri1 site
- Isselicrinus africanus1 site
- Leda leia1 site
- Leda zitteli1 site
- Limea delanouei1 site
- Lucina1 site
- Natica farafrensis1 site
- Neaera aegyptiaca1 site
- Nucula chargensis1 site
- Palaeopsammia zitteli1 site
- Pleurotomaria thebensis1 site
- Porocidaris prior1 site
- Terebratulina chrysalis1 site
- Trochus margaritifer1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Scaphella aegyptiaca, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Ueber die Fossilien der Blättermergel von Theben1
- Die Fauna der obersten weissen Kreide der libyschen Wüste [Uppermost White Cretaceous of the Libyan Desert]1
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
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No picture of Scaphella aegyptiaca 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 Scaphella aegyptiaca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scaphella aegyptiaca 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 itScaphella through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wanner 1902)