Megaxinus ellipticus

No picture of Megaxinus ellipticus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Megaxinus ellipticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegaxinusPBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 8.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPliocene16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13.82 Mya5.333 Mya16.5 Mya3.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Megaxinus ellipticus on record. 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

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

San Martino Calcarenite — 46.22°N, 12.80°ELugagnano — 44.84°N, 9.97°E

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The named rock units Megaxinus ellipticus 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.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Megaxinus ellipticus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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

Media content0

No picture of Megaxinus ellipticus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Megaxinus ellipticus 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itMegaxinus through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Borson 1825)