Cryptaulax wawalensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CryptaulaxPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 132.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Cryptaulax wawalensis on record, most of them in the Early 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
13 occurrences- Early 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.
Cryptaulax wawalensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Cryptaulax wawalensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Promathildia orthocosta12 sites
- Tuba seriaformis12 sites
- Tornatellaea gazdzickii11 sites
- Buvignieria schroederi10 sites
- Gymnothilda tomaszina9 sites
- Jurilda wonwalensis9 sites
- Gastropoda6 sites
- Cryptaulax tricuspis5 sites
- Acteon4 sites
- Bralitzia wonwalensis4 sites
- Zebina dziki4 sites
- Carinathilda tectispira3 sites
- Angulathilda microstriata2 sites
- Cryptaulax kulickii2 sites
- Pseudomelania2 sites
- Vatopsis nuetzeli2 sites
- Costazygia1 site
- Diatrypesis kurushini1 site
- Dzikella trammeri1 site
- Erratothilda dziki1 site
- Knightella baluki1 site
- Palaeoscyllium1 site
- Schroederium valanginense1 site
- Turritella polonica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cryptaulax wawalensis, 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 13 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 Cryptaulax wawalensis 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 Cryptaulax wawalensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cryptaulax wawalensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCryptaulax through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kaim 2004