Xenodiscus carbonarius
No picture of Xenodiscus carbonarius 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 carbonarius, 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 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Xenodiscus carbonarius 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
23 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
5 formations
- Wargal Formation11
- Chhidru Formation7
- Gungri Formation · Kuling Group2
- Toyoma Formation1
- Conglomerate Mesa Formation1
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The named rock units Xenodiscus carbonarius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Xenodiscus carbonarius and its relatives
PermianWhere Xenodiscus carbonarius and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
345 taxa- Costiferina indica12 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis11 sites
- Chonetella nasuta11 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus11 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi11 sites
- Transennatia gratiosa11 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis10 sites
- Kiangsiella pectiniformis10 sites
- Marginifera (Marginifera) typica10 sites
- Waagenoconcha (Gruntoconcha) abichi10 sites
- Asperlinus asperulus9 sites
- Cleiothyridina capillata9 sites
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa9 sites
- Gundarolasmina acutangulum8 sites
- Notothyris warthi8 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi acuteplicata8 sites
- Spirigerella praelonga8 sites
- Athyris7 sites
- Echinalosia indica7 sites
- Hustedia grandicosta7 sites
- Oldhamina decipiens7 sites
- Productus (Haydenella) kiangsiensis tumida7 sites
- Callispirina ornata6 sites
- Cleiothyridina simulans6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Xenodiscus carbonarius, 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- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range12
- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part I5
- Permian fossils of the Central Himalayas3
- Discovery of Xenodiscus from the Permian Toyoma Formation of southern Kitakami Massif1
- Late Permian ammonoids in the Inyo Range, California, and their significance1
- On the occurrence of Ammonites, associated with Ceratites, and Goniatites in the Carboniferous deposits of the Salt Range1
Each of the 23 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Xenodiscus carbonarius 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 carbonarius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xenodiscus carbonarius 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 itXenodiscus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waagen 1872)