Undularia scalata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- UndulariaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ptenoglossa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ptenoglossa
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ptenoglossa
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 790 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 245.19 Mya to 244.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 241.464 Mya.
6 occurrences of Undularia scalata on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
6 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
- Grès à Voltzia Formation · Buntsandstein Group2
- Trochitenkalk Formation · Muschelkalk Group1
- brachiopod-limestone Formation1
- Wellenkalk Formation1
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The named rock units Undularia scalata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Undularia scalata and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Undularia scalata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
144 taxa- Myophoria vulgaris4 sites
- Pleuromya4 sites
- Hoernesia socialis3 sites
- Loxonema obsoleta3 sites
- Neoschizodus laevigatus3 sites
- Rhizocorallium3 sites
- Astartellopsis triasina2 sites
- Bakevellia (Bakevellia) subcostata2 sites
- Coelostylina gregaria2 sites
- Echinodermata2 sites
- Elegantinia elegans2 sites
- Germanonautilus bidorsatus2 sites
- Gervillia mytiloides2 sites
- Hoernesia2 sites
- Homomya albertii2 sites
- Lingularia tenuissima2 sites
- Loxonema2 sites
- Myoconcha giebeli2 sites
- Natica coarctata2 sites
- Naticopsis gaillardoti2 sites
- Neoschizodus cardissoides2 sites
- Neritaria2 sites
- Nucula goldfussii2 sites
- Pecten discites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Undularia scalata, 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- Faunes et paysages du Grès à Voltzia du Nord des Vosges: Essai paléoécologique sur le Buntsandstein supérieur2
- Faunal lists from Muschelkalk Museum, Ingelfingen, Germany1
- Die stratigrafische Stellung der Gibsvorkommen in der Trias von Recoaro (Vicentin, Italien), [The stratigraphic position of the occurrence at the Triassic]1
- Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Stratigraphie des oberschlesischen Muschelkalk1
- Die fauna des unteren Trigonodus-Dolomits vom Hühberfeld bei Schwieberdingen und des sogenannten “Cannstatter Kreidemergels”1
Each of the 6 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
Media content1
Picture of Undularia scalata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Undularia scalata 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 itUndularia through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Schlotheim 1892