Roxania

Roxania is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Alacuppidae.

Roxania

Lena Tina Ohnheiser, Universitetsmuseet i Bergen, Universitetet i Bergen · CC BY 3.0 · 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
HaminoeoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Haminoeoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Haminoeoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Haminoeoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 88 occurrencesPaleocene — about 10 of 88 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 14 of 88 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 88 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 59 of 88 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 88 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 88 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 16 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 11 occurrences10–7.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences7.9–5.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–1.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences61.66 Mya3.6 Mya67 Mya1 Mya

88 occurrences of Roxania on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

88 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

25 formations

Gatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.90°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ELellinge Greensand — 55.48°N, 10.47°EBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EOiching — 47.92°N, 13.00°EFels — 48.51°N, 15.77°ENanggulan — 7.73°S, 110.18°EBanc à verrins — 48.85°N, 1.94°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ELillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°EDrazinda — 30.42°N, 70.51°EDrazinda — 29.95°N, 70.12°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WNyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°EGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WLaksarska Nova Ves — 48.59°N, 17.38°EKangilia — 70.33°N, 53.08°W

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The named rock units Roxania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Roxania and its relatives

Miocene

Where Roxania and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,420 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Roxania, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

33 references

Each of the 88 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. 21 further references are not listed. 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 Roxania

Credit
Lena Tina Ohnheiser, Universitetsmuseet i Bergen, Universitetet i Bergen
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Roxania 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

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 itHaminoeoidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leach In Gray 1847