Scutelluida indet.
No picture of Scutelluida indet. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Scutelluida indet. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Scutelluida indet. on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Scutelluida indet. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scutelluida indet. and its relatives
SilurianWhere Scutelluida indet. and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Bumastus cuniculus3 sites
- Ceratocephala goniata3 sites
- Dalmanites3 sites
- Deiphon3 sites
- Sphaerexochus romingeri3 sites
- Arctinurus2 sites
- Bumastus2 sites
- Calymene celebra2 sites
- Cerauromerus hydei2 sites
- Cheirurus niagarensis2 sites
- Dicranopeltis decipiens2 sites
- Encrinurus2 sites
- Eophacops2 sites
- Harpidella2 sites
- Illaenoides2 sites
- Pseudogerastos handwerki2 sites
- Staurocephalus2 sites
- Trochurus2 sites
- Acidaspis1 site
- Ananaspis1 site
- Bumastus dayi1 site
- Bumastus graftonensis1 site
- Bumastus niagarensis1 site
- Bumastus tenuis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Scutelluida indet., 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
2 references- Silurian trilobite associations in North America3
- Ecostratigraphy of Silurian trilobite assemblages of the Barrandian area, Czechoslovakia1
Each of the 4 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. 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.
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No picture of Scutelluida indet. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Scutelluida indet. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Scutelluida indet. 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 itFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.