Xenocheilos minutum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- XenocheilosPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Nepeidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Xenocheilos minutum on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
11 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Xenocheilos minutum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Xenocheilos minutum and its relatives
CambrianWhere Xenocheilos minutum and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Kindbladia wichitaensis10 sites
- Cliffia lataegenae8 sites
- Dellea suada8 sites
- Housia vacuna8 sites
- Irvingella major8 sites
- Kymagnostus harti8 sites
- Neoagnostus dilatus8 sites
- Pulchricapitus fetosus7 sites
- Aphelotoxon lumaleasa6 sites
- Pterocephalia sanctisabae6 sites
- Buttsia drabensis5 sites
- Cheilocephalus brachyops5 sites
- Cliffia magnacilis4 sites
- Pseudokingstonia exotica4 sites
- Pseudosaratogia lata4 sites
- Apachia genaitholix3 sites
- Elvinia roemeri3 sites
- Iddingsia hapsis3 sites
- Drabia typica2 sites
- Jessievillia radiatus2 sites
- Pterocephalia2 sites
- Acrotretida1 site
- Burnetiella1 site
- Bynumina terrenda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Xenocheilos minutum, 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
3 references- Redeposited Elvinia Zone (Upper Cambrian) trilobites from the Collier Shale, Ouachita Mountains, west-central Arkansas8
- The trilobite fauna of the Elvina zone in the Basal Wilberns limestone of Texas2
- Geological implications of Late Cambrian trilobites from the Collier Shale, Jessieville area, Arkansas1
Each of the 11 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 Xenocheilos minutum 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 Xenocheilos minutum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xenocheilos minutum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itXenocheilos through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1949