Xampylodon dentatus
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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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.
6 occurrences of Xampylodon dentatus 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
5 formations
- Northumberland Formation · Nanaimo Group2
- Moreno Formation · Great Valley Group1
- Conway Formation1
- Pierre Shale Formation · Montana Group1
- Nishichirashinai Formation1
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The named rock units Xampylodon dentatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Xampylodon dentatus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Xampylodon dentatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
112 taxa- Echinorhinus3 sites
- Carcharias dominguei2 sites
- Centroscymnus2 sites
- Centrosqualus mustardi2 sites
- Chlamydoselachus balli2 sites
- Dykeius garethi2 sites
- Eoetmopterus supracretaceus2 sites
- Florenceodon johnyi2 sites
- Hessinodon wardi2 sites
- Hexanchus microdon2 sites
- Komoksodon kwutchakuth2 sites
- Notidanodon pectinatus2 sites
- Paraorthacodus rossi2 sites
- Pristiophorus smithi2 sites
- Protocentrophorus steviae2 sites
- Protoheptranchias lowei2 sites
- Rolfodon ludvigseni2 sites
- Squaliodalatias savoiei2 sites
- Squalus nicholsae2 sites
- Squalus vondermarcki2 sites
- Synechodus dereki2 sites
- Ammonitida1 site
- Anomalina1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Xampylodon dentatus, 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
3 references- A shark fauna from the Campanian of Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada: an insight into the diversity of Cretaceous deep-water assemblages4
- Santonian-Campanian neoselachian faunas of the Upper Cretaceous Yezo Group in Nakagawa Town, Hokkaido, Japan1
- On fossil-fish remains from the Tertiary and Cretaceo-Tertiary formations of New Zealand1
Each of the 6 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
Media content0
No picture of Xampylodon dentatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Xampylodon dentatus 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 dentatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xampylodon dentatus 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 itXampylodon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Woodward 1886)