Tritaxia

Tritaxia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TritaxiidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 124 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 129 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 115 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 115 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 58 of 115 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 13 of 115 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 115 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 115 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 115 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 115 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 115 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 5 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 6 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 26 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 16 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 7 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 6 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 6 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences125.77 Mya774 ka146 Mya0 Mya

115 occurrences of Tritaxia on record, most of them in the Late 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

115 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

8 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°ESinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°EFerriby — 51.10°N, 1.30°EFerriby — 54.15°N, 0.23°WBedoulian — 44.40°N, 27.87°EHochmoos — 47.60°N, 13.48°EWadi Thamat — 29.98°N, 17.73°EPabdeh — 33.63°N, 46.44°ELiuchungchi — 23.13°N, 120.45°E

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The named rock units Tritaxia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tritaxia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Tritaxia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

425 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Tritaxia, 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

29 references

Each of the 115 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. 17 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 Tritaxia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows 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 itTritaxiidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.