Xitus spicularius

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XitusPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 115 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 22 of 115 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 73 of 115 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 115 occurrencesLate Cretaceous167–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences161–157 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–151 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 4 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 8 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 15 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 10 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 8 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 6 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 7 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 8 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 12 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 4 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 5 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 6 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 7 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 5 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 3 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya83.6 Mya167 Mya70 Mya

115 occurrences of Xitus spicularius on record, most of them in the Early 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

115 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

16 formations

Maiolica — 43.26°N, 12.81°EMaiolica — 43.35°N, 12.71°EMaiolica — 43.48°N, 12.72°EOberalmer Schichten — 47.62°N, 13.25°EOberalmer Schichten — 47.70°N, 13.07°EOberalmer Schichten — 47.73°N, 13.03°EScaglia Bianca — 43.48°N, 12.72°EScaglia Bianca — 43.38°N, 12.62°EWahrah — 22.97°N, 57.06°EWahrah — 22.73°N, 57.40°ESchrambach-Schichten — 47.73°N, 13.03°ESchrambach-Schichten — 47.68°N, 13.05°EScisti a Fucoidi — 43.48°N, 12.72°ENadan — 23.02°N, 57.11°ERosso ad Aptici — 45.90°N, 9.00°ESoccher — 46.19°N, 12.30°EHinodani — 33.77°N, 134.25°EBudden Canyon — 40.40°N, 122.52°WAmden — 47.73°N, 11.52°EBallik — 37.69°N, 30.68°EKemchi — 41.12°N, 48.63°ELower Kanguk — 78.18°N, 99.77°W

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The named rock units Xitus spicularius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xitus spicularius and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Xitus spicularius and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

463 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 102 sites for Xitus spicularius, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

18 references

Each of the 115 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. 6 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Xitus spicularius 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 itXitus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Aliev 1961)