Xampylodon brotzeni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- XampylodonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Hexanchiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Hexanchiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Hexanchiformes
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
5 occurrences of Xampylodon brotzeni on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous12%
- Paleocene74%
- Eocene14%
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
- København Limestone Formation1
- Faxe Formation1
- Hornerstown Formation · Rancocas Group1
- Argiles d'Lignite du Soissonnais Formation1
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The named rock units Xampylodon brotzeni 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.
Xampylodon brotzeni and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Xampylodon brotzeni and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
112 taxa- Hexanchus3 sites
- Squatina3 sites
- Carcharias gracilis2 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Heptranchias howellii2 sites
- Heterodontus2 sites
- Palaeogaleus vincenti2 sites
- Palaeohypotodus speyeri2 sites
- Sphenodus lundgreni2 sites
- Striatolamia cederstroemi2 sites
- Acipenser albertensis1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Adocus beatus1 site
- Aetomylaeus striatus1 site
- Agomphus pectoralis1 site
- Anchura abrupta1 site
- Anomotodon novus1 site
- Atractosteus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Bananogmius1 site
- Batomorphii1 site
- Borealosuchus threeensis1 site
- Bothremys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Xampylodon brotzeni, 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
4 references- Revision of the Danian cow sharks, sand tiger sharks, and goblin sharks (Hexanchidae, Odontaspididae, and Mitsukurinidae) from southern Sweden2
- New vertebrate microfossils expand the chondrichthyan and actinopterygian fauna of the Maastrichtian-Danian Hornerstown Formation in New Jersey1
- Neoselachians from the Danian (Early Paleocene) of Denmark1
- Les ichthyofaunes du gisement à ambre de Le Quesnoy (Paléocène et Éocène du bassin de Paris, France)1
Each of the 5 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 Xampylodon brotzeni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Xampylodon brotzeni itself, so it was not used.
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 Xampylodon brotzeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xampylodon brotzeni 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itXampylodon through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Siverson 1995)