Xiphostylus whalenae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- XiphostylusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 168.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 168.2 Mya.
3 occurrences of Xiphostylus whalenae 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
3 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Xiphostylus whalenae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Xiphostylus whalenae and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Xiphostylus whalenae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
193 taxa- Gorgansium3 sites
- Trillus elkhornensis3 sites
- Archaeocenosphaera2 sites
- Emiluvia2 sites
- Higumastra laxa2 sites
- Hsuum2 sites
- Lanubus2 sites
- Lanubus holdsworthi2 sites
- Napora2 sites
- Nassellaria2 sites
- Orbiculiforma2 sites
- Pantanellium2 sites
- Parahsuum2 sites
- Parahsuum officerense2 sites
- Paronaella2 sites
- Perispyridium2 sites
- Praeparvicingula2 sites
- Protunuma2 sites
- Triactoma2 sites
- Tritrabs simplex2 sites
- Xiphostylus fragilis2 sites
- Xiphostylus halli2 sites
- Yamatoum2 sites
- Zartus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Xiphostylus whalenae, 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
3 references- A Middle Jurassic (Upper Bajocian) radiolarian assemblage from Snowshoe Formation, east-central Oregon1
- Faunal change of Early - Middle Jurassic radiolarians1
- The Xiphostylidae Haeckel and Parvivaccidae, n. fam, (Radiolaria) from the North American Jurassic1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Xiphostylus whalenae 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 Xiphostylus whalenae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xiphostylus whalenae 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 itXiphostylus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pessagno et al. 1989