Xeris

Xeris is a genus of horntails found in North America and Eurasia. Achille Costa circumscribed the genus in 1894.

Xeris

Johann August Ephraim Goeze · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
SiricinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–5.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.6–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23.04 Mya7.246 Mya27.8 Mya4.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Xeris on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

2 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 the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Xeris, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Xeris

Credit
Johann August Ephraim Goeze
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Xeris 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSiricinae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Costa 1894