Xenophora hawleyi

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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 most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Xenophora hawleyi 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Xenophora hawleyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Xenophora hawleyi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Xenophora hawleyi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis4 sites
- Anomia vaquerosensis3 sites
- Balanus3 sites
- Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana3 sites
- Crassostrea vaquerosensis3 sites
- Dallocardia vaquerosense3 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Hybolophus granti3 sites
- Macrochlamis magnolia3 sites
- Turritella inezana3 sites
- Bittium topangensis2 sites
- Clementia conradiana2 sites
- Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus ynezanus2 sites
- Crenomytilus expansus2 sites
- Crepidula praerupta2 sites
- Cylichna alba2 sites
- Mactromeris sectoris2 sites
- Mammalia2 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) ynezianus2 sites
- Ocenebra topangensis2 sites
- Olivella pedroana subpedroana2 sites
- Pinna (Pinna) stocktoni2 sites
- Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus andersoni2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Xenophora hawleyi, 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
1 referenceEach 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
Media content1

Picture of Xenophora hawleyi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Xenophora hawleyi 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 itXenophora through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loel and Corey 1932