Protoxiphotractus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StylosphaeridaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 59.24 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 41 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 41 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 28 of 41 occurrencesPaleocene101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–83 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 9 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 9 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 7 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93.9 Mya61.66 Mya101.3 Mya58.4 Mya

41 occurrences of Protoxiphotractus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

41 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

5 formations

Mead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°EUrakawa — 42.17°N, 142.82°EScaglia Bianca — 43.48°N, 12.72°EScaglia Bianca — 43.38°N, 12.62°EGedeller — 36.80°N, 30.53°EA — 44.98°N, 142.27°E

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The named rock units Protoxiphotractus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protoxiphotractus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Protoxiphotractus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Protoxiphotractus, 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

6 references

Each of the 41 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 Protoxiphotractus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protoxiphotractus, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pessagno 1973