Cryptaulax armatum

No picture of Cryptaulax armatum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cryptaulax armatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CryptaulaxPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 6.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 168.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 4 of 11 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 11 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic185–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174.7 Mya168.2 Mya184.7 Mya164.8 Mya

11 occurrences of Cryptaulax armatum on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

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

Opalinuston — 47.43°N, 8.15°EBraunjura alpha & Braunjura beta — 48.90°N, 7.67°E

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The named rock units Cryptaulax armatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cryptaulax armatum and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Cryptaulax armatum and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Cryptaulax armatum, 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

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

Media content0

No picture of Cryptaulax armatum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cryptaulax armatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itCryptaulax through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1843)