Phaneroptyxis

Phaneroptyxis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous159–157 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–109 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143.1 Mya113.2 Mya158.9 Mya109.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Phaneroptyxis 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

7 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

4 formations

Encino — 19.80°N, 103.27°WXiaqiongco — 31.75°N, 89.50°EZapotitlan — 18.33°N, 97.48°WErnstbrunn — 48.55°N, 16.35°E

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The named rock units Phaneroptyxis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phaneroptyxis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Phaneroptyxis, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Phaneroptyxis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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 itItieriidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1896