Protaxius

No picture of Protaxius was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Protaxius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AxiidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Axiidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Axiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 1.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145.06 Mya – 143.1 Mya153 Mya99 Mya

3 occurrences of Protaxius on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

3 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

1 formation

Nakanosawa — 37.70°N, 140.90°E

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The named rock units Protaxius 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.

Protaxius and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Protaxius and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Protaxius, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Protaxius was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Protaxius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protaxius 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.

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What may have been alongside itAxiidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beurlen 1930