Orthaulax inornatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrthaulaxPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Stromboidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromboidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Stromboidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 4.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
6 occurrences of Orthaulax inornatus 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Pirabas Formation3
- Arcadia Formation · Hawthorn Group1
- Baitoa Formation1
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The named rock units Orthaulax inornatus 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.
Orthaulax inornatus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Orthaulax inornatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
443 taxa- Cerithium4 sites
- Chama4 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula)4 sites
- Olivella4 sites
- Orthaulax pugnax4 sites
- Pachycrommium4 sites
- Tellina4 sites
- Trachycardium4 sites
- Acanthocarpus obscurus3 sites
- Amauropsis3 sites
- Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana3 sites
- Anomia ephippium3 sites
- Aphrocallistes estevoui3 sites
- Aphrocallistes lobata3 sites
- Architectonica nobilis3 sites
- Arcinella3 sites
- Arcinella yaquensis3 sites
- Argopecten3 sites
- Barbatia3 sites
- Callapa circularis3 sites
- Callinectes3 sites
- Calliostoma (Eutrochus)3 sites
- Calliostoma cirrus3 sites
- Calliostoma pirabicum3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Orthaulax inornatus, 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
4 references- Localidades fossiliferas da Formacao Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior)3
- Variation in the genus Orthaulax (Mollusca: Gastropoda)1
- Molluscs of the Tampa and Suwannee Limestones1
- Tertiary mollusks from the Leeward Islands and Cuba1
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 Orthaulax inornatus 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 inornatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orthaulax inornatus 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.
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What may have been alongside itOrthaulax through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1872