Oxyeurax

Searched as Oxyloma. The Paleobiology Database treats Oxyeurax as the accepted name.

Oxyloma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Succineidae, the ambersnails.

Oxyeurax

Original uploader was TheEmulatorGuy at the English Wikipedia . · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AstartidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 6 of 20 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 20 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 20 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 20 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–134 Mya — about 3 occurrences134–128 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences128–122 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences122–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.8–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka174 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Oxyeurax 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

20 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

7 formations

Crack Canyon — 39.05°N, 122.41°WCrack Canyon — 38.90°N, 122.48°WOber Süßwassermolasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°ETucks Bay — 46.55°S, 169.51°EPurakauiti — 46.48°S, 168.75°ETestard — 22.00°S, 166.08°EBudden Canyon — 40.47°N, 122.61°WPaskenta — 40.13°N, 122.23°W

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The named rock units Oxyeurax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oxyeurax and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Oxyeurax and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

115 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Oxyeurax, 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

9 references

Each of the 20 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 content1

Picture of Oxyeurax

Credit
Original uploader was TheEmulatorGuy at the English Wikipedia .
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gardner and Campbell 2002