Aulaxinia melo
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AulaxiniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lithistida
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Aulaxinia melo 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
1 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.
Aulaxinia melo and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Aulaxinia melo and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Allopleuron hoffmanni1 site
- Amphilectella piriformis1 site
- Amphithelion (Amphithelion) macrommata1 site
- Amphithelion cupula1 site
- Aphrocallistes alveolites1 site
- Aphrocallistes cylindrodactylus1 site
- Astrocladia subramosa1 site
- Aulaxinia sulcifera1 site
- Aulaxinia ventricosa1 site
- Aulosoma radiciformis1 site
- Belemnitella1 site
- Belemnitella mucronata1 site
- Bostrychoceras polyplocum1 site
- Callicylix (Cyclostigma) acinosa1 site
- Callopegma acaule1 site
- Calymmatina rimosa1 site
- Cardiaster1 site
- Cardiotaxis1 site
- Chalaropegma cerebriformis1 site
- Chenendopora fungiformis1 site
- Chonella tenuis1 site
- Coeloptychium agaricoides1 site
- Coeloptychium deciminum1 site
- Coeloptychium incisum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aulaxinia melo, 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 content0
No picture of Aulaxinia melo was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aulaxinia melo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAulaxinia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schrammen 1910