Tessarolax grahami
No picture of Tessarolax grahami 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 Tessarolax grahami, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TessarolaxPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Tessarolax grahami on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Tessarolax grahami has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tessarolax grahami and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Tessarolax grahami and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Cucullaea (Idonearca) youngi2 sites
- Eriphyla veatchii2 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii2 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana2 sites
- Turritella chicoensis2 sites
- Turritella packardi2 sites
- Anchura halberdopsis1 site
- Astarte tuscana1 site
- Biplica obliqua1 site
- Canadoceras multisulcatum1 site
- Confusiscala newcombii1 site
- Etea angulata1 site
- Fimbrivasum medium1 site
- Forsia baia1 site
- Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)1 site
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli1 site
- Indogrammatodon vancouverensis1 site
- Lysis suciensis1 site
- Murphitys corona1 site
- Paosia pentzensis1 site
- Paraesa zeta1 site
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus1 site
- Volutoderma santana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tessarolax grahami, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tessarolax grahami 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 Tessarolax grahami, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tessarolax grahami was found in Sketchfab.
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 itTessarolax through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Saul and Squires 2015