Xiphactinus audax

No picture of Xiphactinus audax was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Xiphactinus audax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XiphactinusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ichthyodectiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ichthyodectiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ichthyodectiformes

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 38 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 38 of 38 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–88 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93.9 Mya83.6 Mya101.1 Mya71.6 Mya

38 occurrences of Xiphactinus audax on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

38 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

17 formations

Greenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.00°N, 98.92°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.81°N, 97.34°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.74°N, 97.65°WGreenhorn Limestone — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.87°N, 98.51°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.94°N, 98.80°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.04°N, 98.99°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.78°N, 98.96°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.74°N, 99.04°WMooreville Chalk — 32.95°N, 88.08°WMooreville Chalk — 32.94°N, 88.06°WMooreville Chalk — 32.60°N, 87.68°WMooreville Chalk — 32.76°N, 88.02°WCarlile Shale — 39.89°N, 98.03°WCarlile Shale — 39.08°N, 99.24°WCarlile Shale — 39.78°N, 98.15°WCarlile Shale — 39.08°N, 99.03°WNiobrara — 38.72°N, 100.70°WNiobrara — 39.09°N, 99.85°WNiobrara — 38.79°N, 100.70°WNiobrara — 38.80°N, 100.19°WMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WBlufftown — 32.16°N, 85.03°WCarlile — 49.05°N, 98.00°WTar Heel — 34.57°N, 78.50°WCusseta — 32.14°N, 84.95°WBelle Fourche — 53.21°N, 103.52°WAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°WEutaw — 33.52°N, 88.40°WLa Luna — 9.62°N, 70.40°WBlack Creek — 35.46°N, 77.68°WPuskwaskau — 55.61°N, 118.39°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.54°WAtco — 32.53°N, 96.99°W

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The named rock units Xiphactinus audax 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.

Xiphactinus audax and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Xiphactinus audax and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

385 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Xiphactinus audax, 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

27 references

Each of the 38 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. 15 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 content2

Synchrotron Imaging scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Xiphactinus audax · ummp:vp:11003

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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No picture of Xiphactinus audax was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Xiphactinus audax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itXiphactinus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1870)