Scheenstia

Scheenstia is an extinct genus of neopterygian ray-finned fish from the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous of Europe. Fossils have been found in both marine and freshwater environments.

Scheenstia

Anagoria · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LepisosteiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lepisosteiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lepisosteiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lepisosteiformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Lepisosteiformes

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 6 of 21 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 15 of 21 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 21 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 3 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence143–141 Mya — about 2 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–131 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149.2 Mya119.57 Mya156 Mya99 Mya

21 occurrences of Scheenstia on record, most of them in the Early 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

21 occurrences

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

7 formations

Sainte-Barbe Clays — 50.48°N, 3.65°EWadhurst Clay — 50.86°N, 0.44°EWadhurst Clay — 50.89°N, 0.69°EPainten — 48.92°N, 11.58°EArcillas de Morella — 40.62°N, 0.10°WWessex — 50.66°N, 1.47°WWoburn Sands — 52.03°N, 0.40°WSandgate — 51.24°N, 0.15°W

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The named rock units Scheenstia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scheenstia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Scheenstia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

260 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Scheenstia, 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

15 references

Each of the 21 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Scheenstia

Credit
Anagoria
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Scheenstia 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLepisosteiformes through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. López-Arbarello and Sfercoa 2009