Anaulus
Searched as Anaulus mediterraneus intermedia. The Paleobiology Database treats Anaulus as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnaulaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
- Environment
- marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Time the record covers
At most 9.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 13.82 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Anaulus 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Anaulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anaulus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Anaulus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Trinacria31 sites
- Hemiaulus29 sites
- Pterotheca29 sites
- Stephanopyxis turris28 sites
- Stephanopyxis26 sites
- Actinoptychus24 sites
- Pseudopyxilla24 sites
- Stephanopyxis simonseni23 sites
- Goniothecium21 sites
- Sceptroneis20 sites
- Meristiosolen sp. 119 sites
- Paralia sulcata19 sites
- Thalassiosiropsis19 sites
- Hemiaulus polymorphus17 sites
- Micrampula parvula17 sites
- Stellarima17 sites
- Trochosiropsis17 sites
- Cortinocornus rossicus15 sites
- Costopyxis14 sites
- Gladiopsis speciosus14 sites
- Triceratium14 sites
- Aulacodiscus septus12 sites
- Aulacodiscus11 sites
- Bacillariophyceae11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Anaulus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Anaulus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anaulus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnaulaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1844