Tritaxis

Tritaxis is a genus in the family Trochamminidae, and subfamily Trochammininae.

No picture of Tritaxis 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 Tritaxis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrochammininaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Trochamminidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trochamminidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Trochamminoidea

Time the record covers

At least 131 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 610 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 4 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–130 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence132.6 Mya610 ka140 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Tritaxis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

4 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

Sundays River — 33.60°S, 25.65°E

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The named rock units Tritaxis 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.

Tritaxis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

44 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tritaxis, 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

2 references

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

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No picture of Tritaxis 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 Tritaxis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tritaxis was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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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 itTrochammininae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schubert 1921