Xitus magnus

No picture of Xitus magnus 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 Xitus magnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XitusPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 145.06 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 14 of 14 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157.9 Mya145.06 Mya159.5 Mya142.6 Mya

14 occurrences of Xitus magnus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

14 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

1 formation

Rosso Ammonitico Medio — 38.00°N, 12.83°E

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The named rock units Xitus magnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xitus magnus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Xitus magnus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Xitus magnus, 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

2 references

Each of the 14 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 Xitus magnus 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 Xitus magnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Xitus magnus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itXitus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baumgartner 1995