Xanthilites gerthi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- XanthilitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Xanthilites gerthi on record, most of them in the Late 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous50%
- Paleocene50%
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
2 formations
- Roca Formation3
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group1
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The named rock units Xanthilites gerthi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Xanthilites gerthi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Xanthilites gerthi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Lobonotus lobulata4 sites
- Callianassa2 sites
- Ctenocheles2 sites
- Eucalliax burckhardti2 sites
- Eutrephoceras2 sites
- Foraminifera2 sites
- Hercoglossa romeroi2 sites
- Leionucula2 sites
- Odontogryphaea2 sites
- Paraster joannisboehmi2 sites
- Pinna2 sites
- Pygopistes parrasae2 sites
- Schizaster2 sites
- Selachia indet.2 sites
- Thalassinoides2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Turritella malaspina2 sites
- Acesta1 site
- Ambigostrea clarae1 site
- Amphidonte mendozana1 site
- Aphrodina1 site
- Archaeogeryon lophos1 site
- Biantholithus1 site
- Botryococcus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Xanthilites gerthi, 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
2 references- Fossil decapod crustaceans from the Jaguel and Roca Formations (Maastrichtian-Danian) of the Neuquen Basin, Argentina3
- Maastrichtian and Danian species of Turkostreini (Ostreidae, Crassostreinae) from the Neuquén Basin, Argentina1
Each of the 4 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 Xanthilites gerthi 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 Xanthilites gerthi, 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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What may have been alongside itXanthilites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Glaessner 1930