Scolicia

Scolicia de Quartrefages, 1849 is a parataxon of ichnofossils present in sedimentary rocks of marine, marginal lacustrine, alluvial, or fluvial facies. These fossil traces appear in a wide geological range, from the Cambrian to the present.

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Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 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
IchnofossilsPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 533 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Cambrian — about 4 of 15 occurrencesOrdovician — about 1 of 15 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 15 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 15 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 15 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences648–626 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences626–604 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences604–583 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences583–561 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences561–540 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences540–518 Mya — about 3 occurrences518–497 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences497–475 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences475–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences324–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–281 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences281–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–237 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences130–108 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences108–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences538.8 Mya5.333 Mya648 Mya0 Mya

15 occurrences of Scolicia on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

15 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

11 formations

Kiowa — 37.32°N, 99.75°WPuerto Blanco — 30.42°N, 111.93°WTal — 30.45°N, 78.08°EElephant Canyon — 38.50°N, 109.67°WIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.28°ECzarna Shale — 50.90°N, 20.90°EPowers Steps — 47.63°N, 52.99°WIpún Beds — 44.61°S, 74.76°WVolksrust Shale — 27.86°S, 29.70°EDeep Spring — 37.35°N, 117.32°WPusa Shale — 39.67°N, 5.03°W

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The named rock units Scolicia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scolicia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Scolicia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

165 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Scolicia, 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

13 references

Each of the 15 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. 1 further reference is 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 content2

Picture of Scolicia

Credit
Hectonichus
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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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Sketchfab
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Smithsonian Open Access was 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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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Quatrefages 1849