Omalaxis

No picture of Omalaxis 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 Omalaxis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OmalaxinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Turritellidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritellidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 43 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 43 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesEocene — about 41 of 43 occurrencesEocene121–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 12 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 12 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 9 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences113.2 Mya41.03 Mya121 Mya36 Mya

43 occurrences of Omalaxis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

43 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

11 formations

Selsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WCook Mountain — 30.02°N, 97.07°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WBanc à verrins — 48.85°N, 1.94°EEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WAalter — 51.08°N, 3.45°EBruxellian — 51.17°N, 3.33°ECresnes — 49.22°N, 1.97°ESables de Cuise — 49.57°N, 3.63°EKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°W

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The named rock units Omalaxis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Omalaxis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Omalaxis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,386 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Omalaxis, 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

10 references

Each of the 43 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 Omalaxis 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 Omalaxis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Omalaxis 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 itOmalaxinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deshayes 1832