Xaniognathus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GondolellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Permian — about 4 of 9 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 9 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 2 of 9 occurrencesLate Triassic261–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254.14 Mya237 Mya260.5 Mya226.6 Mya

9 occurrences of Xaniognathus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

9 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

Episkopi — 37.33°N, 23.49°EEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.41°ETransitional Bed — 31.00°N, 120.00°EFeixianguan — 32.31°N, 105.46°EVardebukta — 77.57°N, 14.99°ETvillingodden — 77.57°N, 14.99°E

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The named rock units Xaniognathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xaniognathus and its relatives

Permian

Where Xaniognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

44 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Xaniognathus, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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 Xaniognathus 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 Xaniognathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Xaniognathus 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 itGondolellidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.