Stigmaulax

Stigmaulax is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Naticinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Stigmaulax

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NaticinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 229 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 229 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 178 of 229 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 45 of 229 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 229 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 10 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 29 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 29 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 29 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 31 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 30 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 17 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 25 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

229 occurrences of Stigmaulax on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

229 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

37 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.42°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WNancy Point — 9.06°N, 81.80°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WTubará — 10.75°N, 74.98°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WShark Hole Point — 9.06°N, 81.79°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WDaule — 1.73°S, 80.25°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WCastilletes — 11.94°N, 71.32°WAngostura — 0.97°N, 79.57°WAngostura — 1.09°N, 78.99°WChagres Sandstone — 9.60°N, 79.53°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WChagres Sandstone — 9.17°N, 80.28°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WJimol — 11.90°N, 71.39°WJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WOnzole — 0.97°N, 79.57°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.93°N, 82.05°WCaujarao — 11.45°N, 69.57°WCaujarao — 11.46°N, 69.32°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°W

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The named rock units Stigmaulax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stigmaulax and its relatives

Miocene

Where Stigmaulax and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,072 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Stigmaulax, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

30 references

Each of the 229 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. 18 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

Picture of Stigmaulax

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morch 1852)