Laxispira
No picture of Laxispira 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 Laxispira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VermiculariinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
112 occurrences of Laxispira 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
112 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.
Found in
15 formations
- Prairie Bluff Formation · Selma Group24
- Providence Formation20
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group14
- Chiwapa Formation10
- Corsicana Marl Formation9
- Coffee Sand Formation · Selma Group9
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The named rock units Laxispira 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.
Laxispira and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Laxispira and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
815 taxa- Anomia argentaria61 sites
- Turritella trilira58 sites
- Syncyclonema54 sites
- Veniella conradi54 sites
- Crenella serica53 sites
- Nuculana51 sites
- Turritella50 sites
- Turritella vertebroides48 sites
- Serpula46 sites
- Crassatella vadosa45 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata45 sites
- Hamulus onyx44 sites
- Caestocorbula (Caestocorbula) crassaplica43 sites
- Cymbophora43 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum42 sites
- Pseudolimea reticulata41 sites
- Linearis40 sites
- Vetericardiella40 sites
- Granocardium39 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta38 sites
- Vertebrata38 sites
- Bryozoa37 sites
- Cyprimeria37 sites
- Gabbigonia eufaulensis37 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 110 sites for Laxispira, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
14 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf31
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain28
- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations12
- Stratigraphy of the outcropping post-Magothy Upper Cretaceous formations in Southern New Jersey an Northern Delmarva peninsula, Delaware and Maryland10
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain9
- Changes in Late Cretaceous - early Tertiary benthic marine assemblages: analyses from the North American coastal plain shallow-shelf4
- Maastrichtian non-cephalopod mollusks: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda and Bivalvia of the Middle Vistula Valley, central Poland4
- The Streptoneuran gastropods, exclusive of the Stenoglossa, of the coffee sand (Campanian) of Northeastern Mississippi3
- Fabric of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Marine Macrofaunal Transition at Braggs, Alabama3
- Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi3
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- The Black Creek-Peedee formational contact (Upper Cretaceous) in the Cape Fear river region of North Carolina1
Each of the 112 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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
Media content0
No picture of Laxispira 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 Laxispira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Laxispira 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 itVermiculariinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1876