Neoptyxis

Neoptyxis

Orbigny (d') · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterostrophiaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences125.77 Mya100.5 Mya133.4 Mya93.1 Mya

12 occurrences of Neoptyxis 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

12 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

2 formations

Galala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°E

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The named rock units Neoptyxis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neoptyxis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Neoptyxis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

78 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Neoptyxis, 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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

Media content1

Picture of Neoptyxis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Orbigny (d')
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

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What may have been alongside itHeterostrophia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.