Xiphodon gracile

No picture of Xiphodon gracile was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Xiphodon gracile itself, so it was not used. 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 Xiphodon gracile, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XiphodonPBDB
Diet
folivorePBDB, for Xiphodon
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Xiphodon
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Xiphodon

Time the record covers

At most 3.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 15 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38.21 Mya33.4 Mya

15 occurrences of Xiphodon gracile 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

15 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.

Xiphodon gracile and its relatives

Eocene

Where Xiphodon gracile and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Xiphodon gracile, 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

6 references

Each of the 15 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Xiphodon gracile was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Xiphodon gracile itself, so it was not used.

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 Xiphodon gracile, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Xiphodon gracile 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 itXiphodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1822