Agatrix

Agatrix is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Agatrix

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
nutmegPBDB
Sits inside
CancellariidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 774 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesOligocene — about 17 of 51 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 51 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 51 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 51 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.3–8.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.2–7.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.0–5.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.9–4.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.7–3.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.6–2.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.4–1.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.3–111 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27.3 Mya1.8 Mya34.6 Mya111 ka

51 occurrences of Agatrix on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

51 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

20 formations

Gurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.51°N, 71.19°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WRiver Bend — 35.11°N, 77.04°WForest Hill — 30.98°N, 88.73°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WAngostura — 0.97°N, 79.57°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WCaujarao — 11.46°N, 69.32°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°W

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The named rock units Agatrix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Agatrix and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Agatrix and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

924 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Agatrix, 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

13 references

Each of the 51 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. 1 further reference is 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 Agatrix

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Agatrix was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Everything alive alongside itCancellariidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Petit 1967