Xitus asymbatos

No picture of Xitus asymbatos was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Xitus asymbatos, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XitusPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 139.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 49 of 78 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 29 of 78 occurrencesLate Cretaceous140–138 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 5 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 8 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 6 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 5 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 5 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 7 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 8 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–87 Mya — about 4 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 8 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 9 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences137.05 Mya83.6 Mya140 Mya71 Mya

78 occurrences of Xitus asymbatos on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

78 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

8 formations

Maiolica — 43.35°N, 12.71°EMaiolica — 43.48°N, 12.72°EMaiolica — 45.64°N, 9.95°EMaiolica — 44.00°N, 14.00°EUrakawa — 42.17°N, 142.82°EKirsanovskaya — 52.55°N, 42.57°EBavnodde Greensand — 55.05°N, 14.75°EZolotukhinskaya — 53.12°N, 35.38°ERegosawa — 44.87°N, 142.28°EAmden — 47.75°N, 11.45°EEfue — 42.17°N, 142.82°E

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The named rock units Xitus asymbatos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xitus asymbatos and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Xitus asymbatos and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

267 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Xitus asymbatos, 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

9 references

Each of the 78 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 content0

No picture of Xitus asymbatos was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Xitus asymbatos, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Xitus asymbatos 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 itXitus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Foreman 1968)