Xenophora deshayesi

Xenophora deshayesi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XenophoraPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Xenophoridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Xenophoridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Xenophoridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 62 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 62 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 56 of 62 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 62 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 62 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 16 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 13 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 8 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.6–8.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.0–6.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.4–4.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.8–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.2–1.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41.03 Mya3.6 Mya49 Mya1.7 Mya

62 occurrences of Xenophora deshayesi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

62 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

17 formations

Baldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°EReinbek Stuffe — 51.77°N, 6.62°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WWarak — 19.51°N, 57.59°EUçarsu — 40.66°N, 39.90°EKasaba — 40.66°N, 39.90°EGhibirti — 10.80°N, 51.05°EDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°EKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EFaluns de la Touraine — 47.40°N, 1.23°EAksucay — 37.27°N, 30.78°E

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The named rock units Xenophora deshayesi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xenophora deshayesi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Xenophora deshayesi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

709 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Xenophora deshayesi, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

16 references

Each of the 62 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. 4 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 content1

Picture of Xenophora deshayesi

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Xenophora deshayesi 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Michelotti 1847)