Squameolites
No picture of Squameolites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Squameolites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlasmoporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
11 occurrences of Squameolites 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
11 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Squameolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Squameolites and its relatives
SilurianWhere Squameolites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Heliolites11 sites
- Podollites6 sites
- Mesofavosites3 sites
- Propora3 sites
- Stellipora3 sites
- Stelliporella3 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Halysites2 sites
- Holmophyllum2 sites
- Anastrophia deflexa1 site
- Angopora hisingeri1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Calostylis1 site
- Dictyosolenia bulla1 site
- Dictyosolenia multitabulata1 site
- Dictyosolenia xinjiangensis1 site
- Encrinurus1 site
- Eospirifer1 site
- Favosites favosiformis1 site
- Favosites forbesi1 site
- Favosites gothlandicus1 site
- Gypidula1 site
- Isorthis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Squameolites, 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
5 references- Heliolitine corals of the topmost Douro and overlying formations (Upper Silurian), Canadian Arctic Islands3
- Heliolitine corals of the Upper Douro Formation (Upper Silurian), Canadian Arctic Islands3
- Upper Silurian heliolitine corals, Canadian Arctic: Taxonomic method, keys to identification, and biogeographic relationships2
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China2
- Spicules and microspheres in the heliolitid tabulates from the Silurian strata of Gorny Altai, Siberia1
Each of the 11 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Squameolites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Squameolites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Squameolites 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 itPlasmoporidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bondarenko 1963