Xenascus australensis

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XenascusPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93.9 Mya83.6 Mya114.1 Mya65.1 Mya

5 occurrences of Xenascus australensis 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

5 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

2 formations

Hidden Like — 63.84°S, 57.90°WSanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°W

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The named rock units Xenascus australensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xenascus australensis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Xenascus australensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Xenascus australensis, 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

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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Xenascus australensis 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 itXenascus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cookson and Eisenack 1969