Tessarolax

Tessarolax

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AporrhainaePBDB
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 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 30 of 63 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 31 of 63 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 63 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 63 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 4 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 3 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 5 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 3 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 3 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences125.77 Mya59.24 Mya134 Mya54 Mya

63 occurrences of Tessarolax on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

63 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

22 formations

Budden Canyon — 40.43°N, 122.60°WBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.55°WBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.55°WAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.58°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WSandgate — 51.00°N, 0.85°WPanoche — 35.87°N, 120.28°WPanoche — 37.20°N, 121.12°WPanoche — 37.28°N, 121.26°WMoreno — 36.22°N, 120.12°WMoreno — 37.47°N, 121.23°WMoreno — 36.89°N, 120.83°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.10°WRosario — 32.43°N, 117.10°WLadd — 33.72°N, 117.63°WChico — 40.24°N, 122.11°WChico — 38.72°N, 121.21°WNorthumberland — 49.54°N, 124.71°WNorthumberland — 49.55°N, 124.70°WMonk’s Bay Sandstone — 50.60°N, 1.32°WFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WForbes — 38.95°N, 122.01°WFunks — 38.90°N, 122.26°WGrès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EConglomérats de Bargy — 46.02°N, 6.46°EPigeon Point — 37.22°N, 122.41°WEl Piojo — 35.76°N, 120.94°WRedding — 40.63°N, 122.10°WPaskenta — 40.13°N, 122.23°WCedar District — 49.56°N, 124.80°W

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The named rock units Tessarolax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tessarolax and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Tessarolax and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

805 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Tessarolax, 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

20 references

Each of the 63 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. 8 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 content2

Picture of Tessarolax

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itAporrhainae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)