Xenophora zitteli
No picture of Xenophora zitteli 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 zitteli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Xenophora zitteli on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
7 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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 Xenophora zitteli 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.
Xenophora zitteli and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Xenophora zitteli and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Palaeopsammia zitteli5 sites
- Polinices hornii5 sites
- Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus5 sites
- Brachysphingus sinuatus4 sites
- Cucullaea mathewsonii4 sites
- Dentalium cooperi4 sites
- Glycymerita major4 sites
- Meretrix stantoni4 sites
- Pholadomya (Pholadomya) nasuta4 sites
- Pitar quadratus4 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus4 sites
- Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis4 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa3 sites
- Crassatella unioides3 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum3 sites
- Siphonalia lineata3 sites
- Surculites mathewsonii3 sites
- Tellina (Saulella) undulifera3 sites
- Urosyca caudata3 sites
- Acesta (Acesta) multiradiata2 sites
- Actaeon lawsoni2 sites
- Architectonica tuberculata2 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis2 sites
- Crassatella uvasana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Xenophora zitteli, 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- Fauna of the Martinez Eocene of California4
- Geology of the coast ranges immediately north of the San Francisco Bay region, California2
- Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico1
Each of the 7 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Xenophora zitteli 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 zitteli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xenophora zitteli 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 PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weaver 1905