Xestoleberis

Xestoleberis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XestoleberididaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Xestoleberididae

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 233 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 233 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 11 of 233 occurrencesEocene — about 35 of 233 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 26 of 233 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 139 of 233 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 233 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 233 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 5 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 6 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 12 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 11 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 10 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 13 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 13 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 25 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 69 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 30 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

233 occurrences of Xestoleberis 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

233 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

24 formations

Gliwice — 50.27°N, 18.67°EKopili — 25.17°N, 92.01°EAntigua — 17.15°N, 61.80°WAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.68°WAshley Mudstone — 44.80°S, 170.98°ETiyon — 26.12°N, 67.83°ECibao Marl — 18.38°N, 66.97°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WBrasso — 10.32°N, 61.28°WBrasso — 10.40°N, 61.32°WAlazán — 21.20°N, 97.73°WAlazán — 21.10°N, 97.72°WLares Limestone — 18.37°N, 67.00°WAguada Limestone — 18.38°N, 66.97°WSylhet — 25.17°N, 92.01°ERosignano Limestone — 43.43°N, 10.45°ETalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WZebbeus — 36.18°N, 8.72°EGosport — 31.53°N, 87.95°WPolonez Cove — 62.13°S, 58.18°WSan Sebastián — 18.35°N, 67.00°WRhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°EChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EAruma — 25.20°N, 46.82°EWills Point — 31.71°N, 96.49°WPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°W

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The named rock units Xestoleberis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 157 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xestoleberis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Xestoleberis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,349 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 118 sites for Xestoleberis, 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

42 references

Each of the 233 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. 30 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Xestoleberis

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iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Xestoleberis 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 itXestoleberididae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sars 1866