Xiphioidei
No picture of Xiphioidei 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 Xiphioidei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PerciformesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Xiphioidei on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
- Daba'a Formation1
- London Clay Formation · Thames Group1
- Kurinui Formation1
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The named rock units Xiphioidei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Xiphioidei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Xiphioidei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
134 taxa- ? Congorhynchus elliotti1 site
- Abdounia minutissima1 site
- Acanthocybiinae1 site
- Acanthocybium1 site
- Acestrus ornatus1 site
- Acipenser1 site
- Acipenser toliapicus1 site
- Aetobatus1 site
- Aglyptorhynchus sulcatus1 site
- Aglyptorhynchus venablesi1 site
- Albula oweni1 site
- Alopias1 site
- Ampheristus toliapicus1 site
- Anoxypristis1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Argillichthys toombsi1 site
- Argillipes1 site
- Argillipes aurorum1 site
- Aturia1 site
- Aulopopsis depressifrons1 site
- Aulopopsis egertoni1 site
- Basilosaurus isis1 site
- Beerichthys1 site
- Beerichthys ingens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Xiphioidei, 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- Fossil billfish (Xiphioidei) from the Eocene of Hampden, North Otago, New Zealand1
- The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstatten1
- A new Eocene marine mammal site in the Qattara depression (Egypt)1
Each of the 3 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 Xiphioidei 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 Xiphioidei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xiphioidei 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPerciformes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1839