Epiphaxum
Epiphaxum is a genus of anthozoans in the family Aulopsammiidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelioporaceaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Helioporacea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Helioporacea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Helioporacea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helioporacea
Time the record covers
At least 89 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
15 occurrences of Epiphaxum on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
15 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Puch Formation2
- Uhrov Formation2
- Glen Rose Limestone Formation · Trinity Group1
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The named rock units Epiphaxum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Epiphaxum and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Epiphaxum and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
174 taxa- Gypsina ogormani9 sites
- Jania nummulitica9 sites
- Nubecularia9 sites
- Serpula9 sites
- Elianella elegans8 sites
- Planorbulina uva8 sites
- Actinacis remesi7 sites
- Bullopora multicamerata7 sites
- Miniacina multiformis7 sites
- Actinacis6 sites
- Actinacis martiniana6 sites
- Polystrata alba6 sites
- Distichoplax biserialis5 sites
- Lithothamnium contraversum5 sites
- Polytremacis5 sites
- Sporolithon lugeonii5 sites
- Sporolithon proprium5 sites
- Acicularia4 sites
- Agathelia asperella4 sites
- Astreopora4 sites
- Fischerina4 sites
- Globochaete4 sites
- Lithophyllum quadrangulum4 sites
- Placopsilina4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Epiphaxum, 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
4 references- Contribution to the knowledge of the Palaeogene reef-complexes of the Myjava-Hricov-Haligovka Zone (West Carpathians)10
- Filling a gap: The first occurrences of Epiphaxum (Cnidaria: Helioporacea: Lithotelestidae) in the eocene, oligocene and miocene3
- Faziesverteilung und Fossilvergesellschaftungen im karbonatischen Flachwassser-Milieu der alpinen Oberkreide (Gosau-Formation) [Facies and fossils from the Upper Cretaceous carbonate shallow water deposits of the Eastern Alps (Gosau Formation)]1
- Corals of the Trinity Group of the Comanchean of central Texas1
Each of the 15 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 Epiphaxum 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 Epiphaxum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epiphaxum 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Epiphaxum”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHelioporacea through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lonsdale 1850