Xiphophoridium alatum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XiphophoridiumPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 20 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 20 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93.9 Mya89.8 Mya101 Mya83.1 Mya

20 occurrences of Xiphophoridium alatum 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

20 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

2 formations

Abu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°EBahariya — 30.00°N, 28.00°E

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The named rock units Xiphophoridium alatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Xiphophoridium alatum and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Xiphophoridium alatum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Xiphophoridium alatum, 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

1 reference

Each of the 20 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

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No picture of Xiphophoridium alatum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Xiphophoridium alatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Xiphophoridium alatum 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 itXiphophoridium through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sarjeant 1966