Scenella pretensa
No picture of Scenella pretensa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Scenella pretensa itself, so it was not used. 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 Scenella pretensa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScenellaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Scenella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Scenella
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Scenella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Scenellidae
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Scenella pretensa on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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 Scenella pretensa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scenella pretensa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Scenella pretensa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Cyclonema leptonotum2 sites
- Sphenotreta acutirostris2 sites
- Ambonychiopsis curvata1 site
- Bucania sulcatina1 site
- Cleionychia marginalis1 site
- Floripatella irregularis1 site
- Glyptomena prisca1 site
- Heliomeroides teres1 site
- Hesperorthis costalis1 site
- Leperditia canadensis1 site
- Lophospira rectistriata1 site
- Maclurites magnus1 site
- Onychoplecia longirostris1 site
- Raphistoma stamineum1 site
- Scalites angulatus1 site
- Scenella montrealensis1 site
- Stenopareia globosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Scenella pretensa, 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 referencesEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Scenella pretensa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Scenella pretensa itself, so it was not used.
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 Scenella pretensa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scenella pretensa 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 itScenella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Raymond 1905