Xenorum

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EptingiidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 174.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 168.6 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 23 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 10 of 23 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 12 of 23 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 23 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic238–236 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences234–231 Mya — about 2 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 2 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 1 occurrence227–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences222–219 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences215–212 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences208–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 1 occurrence200–198 Mya — about 2 occurrences198–196 Mya — about 1 occurrence196–193 Mya — about 1 occurrence193–191 Mya — about 1 occurrence191–189 Mya — about 1 occurrence189–186 Mya — about 1 occurrence186–184 Mya — about 1 occurrence184–181 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences177–174 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences233.6 Mya174.7 Mya238 Mya167 Mya

23 occurrences of Xenorum on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

23 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

Kirchstein — 47.67°N, 11.50°EZulla — 22.47°N, 59.10°E

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The named rock units Xenorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xenorum and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Xenorum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

129 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Xenorum, 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

8 references

Each of the 23 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 Xenorum 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 Xenorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Xenorum 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 itEptingiidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blome 1984