Homalaxis
No picture of Homalaxis was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Homalaxis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Homalaxis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Homalaxis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Homalaxis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Homalaxis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
448 taxa- Adeorbis2 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Ancilla2 sites
- Ancilla canalifera2 sites
- Axopora2 sites
- Batillaria2 sites
- Bittium2 sites
- Bullinella2 sites
- Calliostoma2 sites
- Callista (Callista) elegans2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum2 sites
- Clavilithes2 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina2 sites
- Cominella2 sites
- Conomitra2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica2 sites
- Costacallista laevigata2 sites
- Crassatella2 sites
- Cryptoconus2 sites
- Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) davidsoni2 sites
- Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) sulcata2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Homalaxis, 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- Faune des Sables a Nummulites Variolarius de Barisseuse, pres de Saint-Vast-les-Mello (Oise), et Remarques Paleontologiques3
- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire1
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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Homalaxis was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Homalaxis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Homalaxis 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.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer 1885