Xenophora delecta
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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 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
39 occurrences of Xenophora delecta on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
39 occurrencesThese 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
- Gurabo Formation25
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group3
- Cercado Formation3
- Rio Gurabo Formation2
- Belmont Formation1
- Gatun Formation1
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The named rock units Xenophora delecta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Xenophora delecta and its relatives
MioceneWhere Xenophora delecta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
717 taxa- Spondylus bostrychites8 sites
- Cassis sulcifera7 sites
- Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava)7 sites
- Petaloconchus domingensis6 sites
- Polinices6 sites
- Strombus bifrons6 sites
- Antillophos (Antillophos) moorei5 sites
- Argopecten eccentricus5 sites
- Argopecten thetidis5 sites
- Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus5 sites
- Natica5 sites
- Trigonulina bowdenensis5 sites
- Vermicularia woodringi5 sites
- Antillocyathus maoensis4 sites
- Cerithiidae4 sites
- Chicoreus (Siratus) domingensis4 sites
- Crassatellidae4 sites
- Distorsio mcgintyi4 sites
- Laevicardium serratum4 sites
- Lucinidae4 sites
- Manicina grandis4 sites
- Petaloconchus laddfranklinae4 sites
- Prunum coniforme4 sites
- Sconsia laevigata4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Xenophora delecta, 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
7 references- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel21
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions11
- Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama.2
- Santo Domingo type sections and fossils2
- Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy1
- Fossil mollusks from Carriacou, West Indies1
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results1
Each of the 39 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 Xenophora delecta 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 Xenophora delecta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xenophora delecta 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 itXenophora through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Guppy 1876)