Xiphodolamia ensis

Xiphodolamia ensis

Riehman, Hans · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XiphodolamiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesEocene — about 17 of 19 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 19 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48.07 Mya15.98 Mya56.8 Mya13 Mya

19 occurrences of Xiphodolamia ensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

19 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

14 formations

Tielt — 51.01°N, 3.23°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.85°N, 1.28°EKirkwood — 39.56°N, 75.33°WManasquan — 39.93°N, 74.75°WFürstenau — 52.59°N, 7.22°ECadell Marl — 34.10°S, 139.67°EScotland — 13.21°N, 59.56°WDongen — 53.16°N, 6.22°ELillebælt Clay — 55.60°N, 9.81°ECane River — 31.88°N, 93.37°WWadi Esh-Shallala — 30.85°N, 35.85°ETologaysor — 47.49°N, 55.26°EKressenberg — 47.93°N, 12.97°ESuzak — 41.65°N, 64.66°E

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The named rock units Xiphodolamia ensis 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.

Xiphodolamia ensis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Xiphodolamia ensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

258 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Xiphodolamia ensis, 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

15 references

Each of the 19 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. 3 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 Xiphodolamia ensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Riehman, Hans
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itXiphodolamia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1877