Xestoconcha

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ColpomyidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 9.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 484.3 Mya to 474.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 473.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 12 occurrencesOrdovician — about 12 of 12 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 1 occurrence475–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 2 occurrences484.3 Mya474.9 Mya487.4 Mya472.6 Mya

12 occurrences of Xestoconcha on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

12 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

Pacoota — 23.66°S, 134.49°EPacoota — 23.81°S, 133.78°EPacoota — 23.75°S, 133.33°EPacoota — 24.10°S, 132.26°EPacoota — 23.98°S, 133.32°EPacoota — 24.34°S, 133.01°EPacoota — 23.92°S, 132.81°EPacoota — 23.64°S, 134.47°EOgof Hen — 51.82°N, 4.37°W

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

Xestoconcha and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Xestoconcha and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Xestoconcha, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 12 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

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

No 3D scan of Xestoconcha 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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What may have been alongside itColpomyidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977