Orthaulax

Orthaulax is an extinct genus of sea snails in the family Strombidae.

No picture of Orthaulax 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 Orthaulax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThersiteidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Stromboidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stromboidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Stromboidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 83 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 83 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 5 of 83 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 20 of 83 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 57 of 83 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 9 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 13 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 15 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 15 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence41.03 Mya15.98 Mya67 Mya11 Mya

83 occurrences of Orthaulax on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

83 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

22 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WCulebra — 9.13°N, 79.62°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 28.15°N, 82.76°WArcadia — 30.50°N, 84.00°WArcadia — 30.21°N, 84.30°WArcadia — 30.69°N, 84.84°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.40°N, 82.69°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.50°N, 82.69°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.56°N, 82.39°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.33°N, 82.76°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.23°N, 82.18°WMoneague — 18.10°N, 76.97°WMoneague — 18.37°N, 77.38°WMoneague — 18.47°N, 77.30°WMoneague — 18.34°N, 77.12°WJimol — 12.03°N, 71.29°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WJimol — 11.89°N, 71.37°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WPaso Real — 22.56°N, 83.31°WFlint River — 30.91°N, 84.58°WAymamón Limestone — 18.50°N, 66.96°WBohio — 9.17°N, 79.85°WCaimito — 9.19°N, 79.84°WCervicos Limestone — 19.38°N, 70.82°WTorreya — 30.56°N, 84.60°WCevicos — 19.00°N, 70.67°WAguada Limestone — 18.25°N, 66.33°WThomonde — 19.00°N, 72.42°WCiboa Marl — 18.25°N, 66.33°WUipta — 11.90°N, 71.50°WAkasaki — 32.65°N, 130.50°EToka — 33.03°N, 130.45°E

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The named rock units Orthaulax 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.

Orthaulax and its relatives

Miocene

Where Orthaulax and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,035 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Orthaulax, 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

17 references

Each of the 83 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. 5 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 content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Orthaulax 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 Orthaulax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itThersiteidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1872