Xenodiscoides involutus
No picture of Xenodiscoides involutus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Xenodiscoides involutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- XenodiscoidesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Xenodiscoides involutus on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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- Early Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Xenodiscoides involutus 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.
Xenodiscoides involutus and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Xenodiscoides involutus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Flemingites flemingianus1 site
- Flemingites nanus1 site
- Hedenstroemia evoluta1 site
- Paranorites aequalis1 site
- Paranorites ambiensis1 site
- Paranorites praestans1 site
- Vercherites pulchrum1 site
- Vercherites vercherei1 site
- Xenodiscoides perplicatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Xenodiscoides involutus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from the Salt Range, Pakistan3
- Catalogue of Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV, The Ammonoidea of the Trias1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Xenodiscoides involutus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Xenodiscoides involutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xenodiscoides involutus 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 itXenodiscoides through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frech 1905)