Xiphodon intermedium

No picture of Xiphodon intermedium was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Xiphodon intermedium itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Xiphodon intermedium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XiphodonPBDB
Diet
folivorePBDB, for Xiphodon
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Xiphodon
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Xiphodon

Time the record covers

At most 3.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 5 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38.21 Mya33.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Xiphodon intermedium on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

5 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

1 formation

Collegats — 42.25°N, 1.08°E

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The named rock units Xiphodon intermedium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xiphodon intermedium and its relatives

Eocene

Where Xiphodon intermedium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Xiphodon intermedium, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 Xiphodon intermedium was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Xiphodon intermedium itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Xiphodon intermedium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itXiphodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stehlin 1910