Skolithos magnus
No picture of Skolithos magnus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Skolithos magnus 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. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SkolithosPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.4 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Skolithos magnus 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
- Beach Formation · Bell Island Group1
- Powers Steps Formation · Wabana Group1
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The named rock units Skolithos magnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Skolithos magnus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Skolithos magnus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Diplichnites2 sites
- Aulichnites1 site
- Bergaueria perata1 site
- Bergaueria prantli1 site
- Bergaueria radiata1 site
- Calycraterion samsonowiczi1 site
- Catenichnus1 site
- Catenichnus contentus1 site
- Circulichnis1 site
- Cruziana breadstoni1 site
- Cruziana problematica1 site
- Cruziana semiplicata1 site
- Curvolithus1 site
- Dactylophycus quadripartitus1 site
- Diplocraterion1 site
- Diplocraterion parallelum1 site
- Dolopichnus gulosus1 site
- Gordia arcuata1 site
- Gyrolithes saxonicus1 site
- Helminthoidichnites marinus1 site
- Helminthopsis1 site
- Helminthopsis hieroglyphica1 site
- Helminthopsis tenuis1 site
- Lingulichnus verticalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Skolithos magnus, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Skolithos magnus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Skolithos magnus 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.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Skolithos magnus 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 itSkolithos through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Howell 1944