Xenoxylon

Xenoxylon

Korea Heritage Service · KOGL Type 1 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PinalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 112 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 9 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 9 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 9 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences195–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–187 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences178–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–165 Mya — about 3 occurrences165–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences184.2 Mya72.2 Mya195 Mya63 Mya

9 occurrences of Xenoxylon on record, most of them in the Middle 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

9 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

7 formations

Morrison — 39.24°N, 109.00°WMorrison — 44.63°N, 107.81°WPrince Creek — 70.00°N, 152.00°WCoal Suite — 42.80°N, 41.70°ECoal Suite — 42.90°N, 41.80°EDogger — 54.45°N, 0.57°WCleveland Ironstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WScarbourough and Scalby — 54.29°N, 0.41°W

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

Xenoxylon and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Xenoxylon and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

87 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Xenoxylon, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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 content1

Picture of Xenoxylon

Credit
Korea Heritage Service
Licence
KOGL Type 1
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Xenoxylon 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 itPinales through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gothan 1905