Helicaulax latealata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelicaulaxPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya.
3 occurrences of Helicaulax latealata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Helicaulax latealata 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.
Helicaulax latealata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Helicaulax latealata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Cataceramus bantu3 sites
- Pseudocucullaea lens3 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Cardium subperobliquum2 sites
- Fusus climacodes2 sites
- Gymnarus fraasi2 sites
- Inoperna flagellifera2 sites
- Pachydiscus stallauensis2 sites
- Strepsidura gracilis2 sites
- Trigonarca angolensis2 sites
- Trigonarca camerunensis2 sites
- Turritella nodosa2 sites
- Veniella undata2 sites
- Volutomorpha horrida2 sites
- Volutomorpha similis2 sites
- Agelasina plenodonta1 site
- Ampullospira bulbiformis1 site
- Anofia aro1 site
- Aphrodina (Mesocallista) quenseli1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Astarte awensis1 site
- Barroisiceras (Barroisiceras) haberfellneri1 site
- Basilissa antiqua1 site
- Bizarrus dietrichi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Helicaulax latealata, 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
3 references- Upper Cretaceous Mollusca (Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda) from Nigeria1
- The stratigraphy of the southern Cameroons1
- Die Oberkreide vom Mungofluß in Kamerun und ihre Fauna1
Each of the 3 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 Helicaulax latealata 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 Helicaulax latealata, 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 itHelicaulax through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Riedel 1933