Xenophora conchyliophora

Xenophora conchyliophora is a species of medium-sized to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Xenophoridae, the carrier shells.

Xenophora conchyliophora

Daderot · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XenophoraPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Xenophoridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Xenophoridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Xenophoridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 18 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 18 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences27.3 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

18 occurrences of Xenophora conchyliophora on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

18 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

8 formations

Quebradillas Limestone — 18.47°N, 66.99°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WFlint River — 30.91°N, 84.58°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WGoose Creek — 33.03°N, 80.39°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WPonce — 18.01°N, 66.61°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°W

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The named rock units Xenophora conchyliophora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xenophora conchyliophora and its relatives

Miocene

Where Xenophora conchyliophora and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

681 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Xenophora conchyliophora, 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

11 references

Each of the 18 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 content2

Picture of Xenophora conchyliophora

Credit
Daderot
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itXenophora through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Born 1780)