Xenodiscus araxensis
No picture of Xenodiscus araxensis 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 Xenodiscus araxensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- XenodiscusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Xenodiscus araxensis 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
3 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Xenodiscus araxensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Xenodiscus araxensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Xenodiscus araxensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Xenodiscus dorashamensis3 sites
- Phisonites triangulus2 sites
- Pseudogastrioceras abichianum2 sites
- Bairdia anbeedei1 site
- Cryptophyllum leptoconicum1 site
- Fabalicypris obunca1 site
- Fabalicypris subgeinitziana1 site
- Foordiceras1 site
- Geinitzina1 site
- Glomospira1 site
- Gruntallina triangularis1 site
- Hemigordius1 site
- Hollinella cushmani1 site
- Janiceps1 site
- Lingulina1 site
- Lingulonodosaria1 site
- Moorites1 site
- Nodosaria1 site
- Pentamplexus1 site
- Pentaphyllum1 site
- Pleuronautilus ex gr. dieneri1 site
- Polycope1 site
- Rectoglandulina1 site
- Tainoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Xenodiscus araxensis, 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- Kotlyar et al., 19832
- The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary1
Each of the 3 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 Xenodiscus araxensis 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 Xenodiscus araxensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xenodiscus araxensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itXenodiscus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shevyrev 1965)