Araxonautilus

No picture of Araxonautilus 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 Araxonautilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FoordiceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Permian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesPermian284–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274.4 Mya259.857 Mya283.9 Mya253.6 Mya

4 occurrences of Araxonautilus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

4 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

2 formations

Julfa — 39.58°N, 45.23°EJulfa — 38.97°N, 45.53°EKochusu — 37.72°N, 74.54°E

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The named rock units Araxonautilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Araxonautilus and its relatives

Permian

Where Araxonautilus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

122 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Araxonautilus, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Araxonautilus 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 Araxonautilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Araxonautilus 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 itFoordiceratidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shimanskiy 1979