Xenelasma

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XenelasmatinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 30 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 4 occurrencesOrdovician — about 4 of 4 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487.4 Mya456.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Xenelasma on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

3 formations

Honeycut — 30.27°N, 97.74°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 98.35°WRockdale Run — 39.63°N, 77.82°WAntelope Valley — 39.60°N, 116.26°W

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The named rock units Xenelasma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Xenelasma and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Xenelasma and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Xenelasma, 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 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Xenelasma 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 itXenelasmatinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.