Epiphaxum

Searched as Epiphaxum murchisoni. The Paleobiology Database treats Epiphaxum as the accepted name.

No picture of Epiphaxum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Epiphaxum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HelioporaceaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Helioporacea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Helioporacea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Helioporacea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Helioporacea

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 6 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene86–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83.6 Mya59.24 Mya86.5 Mya47.3 Mya

6 occurrences of Epiphaxum on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

6 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

1 formation

Uhrov — 49.12°N, 18.45°E

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The named rock units Epiphaxum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Epiphaxum and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Epiphaxum and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

174 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Epiphaxum, 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

2 references

Each of the 6 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 Epiphaxum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Epiphaxum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Epiphaxum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itHelioporacea through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lonsdale 1850