Xantho

Xantho

George Chernilevsky · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
XanthinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Xanthoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 125 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 33 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 33 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 33 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 33 occurrencesMiocene — about 19 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 33 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–9.0 Mya — about 10 occurrences9.0–4.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.5–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences125.77 Mya11.7 ka135 Mya0 Mya

33 occurrences of Xantho 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

33 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

6 formations

Upper Bhuban — 23.73°N, 92.25°EUpper Bhuban — 23.00°N, 93.00°ENdalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.38°ENdalithoni — 17.24°S, 178.94°WLeitha Limestone — 47.83°N, 16.48°ECalcaire à Spatangues — 47.60°N, 3.21°E

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The named rock units Xantho has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xantho and its relatives

Miocene

Where Xantho and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

375 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Xantho, 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

17 references

Each of the 33 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. 5 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 content2

Picture of Xantho

Credit
George Chernilevsky
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itXanthinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leach 1804)