Scurriopsis

Scurriopsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcmaeidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Acmaeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Acmaeidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Acmaeidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 246 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Permian — about 0 of 34 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 34 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 34 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 14 of 34 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 34 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 34 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 34 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 34 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 34 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 34 occurrences254–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–237 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–194 Mya — about 10 occurrences194–186 Mya — about 3 occurrences186–178 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences178–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–110 Mya — about 7 occurrences68–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.5–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence247 Mya129 ka254 Mya0 Mya

34 occurrences of Scurriopsis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

34 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

Hiraiga — 39.82°N, 141.99°EHiraiga — 39.82°N, 141.88°ELuxembourg Sandstone — 49.74°N, 6.05°ECape Stewart — 70.44°N, 22.65°WCape Stewart — 70.47°N, 22.36°WTanohata — 39.84°N, 141.98°ECalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°ESutton — 51.45°N, 3.50°WCalcaire de Caen — 48.97°N, 0.13°WBredasdorp — 33.88°S, 18.45°EMulanguiñeu — 44.40°S, 70.57°WMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°E

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The named rock units Scurriopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scurriopsis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Scurriopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

738 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Scurriopsis, 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

18 references

Each of the 34 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. 6 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 Scurriopsis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gemellaro 1879