Palaxius
No picture of Palaxius 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 Palaxius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DecapodaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Palaxius on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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- Late Triassic100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Palaxius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaxius and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Palaxius and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Alpinophragmium2 sites
- Amblysiphonella2 sites
- Chondrocoenia waltheri2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Miliolipora2 sites
- Ophthalmidium2 sites
- Paradeningeria2 sites
- Peronidella2 sites
- Retiophyllia norica2 sites
- Stromatomorpha2 sites
- Thamnasteria2 sites
- Tolypammina2 sites
- "Tabulozoa" indet.1 site
- Alpinophyllia flexuosa1 site
- Astraeomorpha1 site
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta1 site
- Astrocoenia1 site
- Aulotortus1 site
- Austrocolomia1 site
- Baccanella1 site
- Bacinella1 site
- Bakonycrinus hercuniae1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Cayeuxia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Palaxius, 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- Upper Triassic invertebrates from the Antimonio Formation, Sonora, Mexico1
- Thalassinid anomuran microcoprolites from Upper Triassic carbonate rocks of central Peru1
- Upper Triassic, Dachstein-Type, Reef Limestone from the Wallowa Mountains, Oregon: First Reported Occurence in the United States1
- The Hohe Wand: An Upper Triassic Lagoonal Reef at the Eastern Margin of the Northern Calcareous Alps (Lower Austria)1
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
Media content0
No picture of Palaxius 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 Palaxius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaxius 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDecapoda through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brönnimann and Norton 1960