Xystostrophia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChilidiopsidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 346.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 40 occurrencesDevonian — about 39 of 40 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 40 occurrencesCarboniferous421–419 Mya — about 1 occurrence419–416 Mya — about 3 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 3 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 10 occurrences391–388 Mya — about 11 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 5 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413.02 Mya365.2 Mya421 Mya345 Mya

40 occurrences of Xystostrophia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

40 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

16 formations

Skaly — 50.47°N, 18.38°ECoeymans — 42.88°N, 74.79°WCoeymans — 42.91°N, 74.87°WKalkberg — 42.84°N, 74.75°WKalkberg — 42.86°N, 74.81°WKalkberg — 42.89°N, 74.97°WSelscheid — 51.23°N, 7.82°ESelscheid — 51.23°N, 7.97°EMühlenberg — 51.03°N, 7.85°EMühlenberg — 51.12°N, 7.90°ENewberria — 51.12°N, 7.90°ENewberria — 51.15°N, 7.95°EJunkerberg — 50.44°N, 6.64°ECelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°EPilton Shales — 51.08°N, 4.05°WTibidy — 48.30°N, 4.25°WCawak — 33.98°N, 68.05°ETaboumakhloûf — 30.73°N, 4.70°ESafonovo — 53.87°N, 86.65°EGaspe — 48.87°N, 64.21°WTaboumakhlouf — 31.03°N, 4.99°WJemelle — 50.10°N, 5.02°E

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The named rock units Xystostrophia 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.

Xystostrophia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Xystostrophia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

401 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Xystostrophia, 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

18 references

Each of the 40 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Xystostrophia 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 Xystostrophia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Xystostrophia 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 itChilidiopsidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Havlicek 1965