Xitus takayanagii
No picture of Xitus takayanagii 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 takayanagii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- XitusPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Xitus takayanagii 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Urakawa Formation · Upper Yezo Group2
- A Formation · Hakobuchi Group1
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The named rock units Xitus takayanagii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Xitus takayanagii and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Xitus takayanagii and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Amphipyndax stocki3 sites
- Artostrobium urna3 sites
- Bathropyramis campbelli3 sites
- Cornutella californica3 sites
- Pseudoaulophacus floresensis3 sites
- Pseudoaulophacus lenticulatus3 sites
- Rhopalosyringium magnificum3 sites
- Stichomitra3 sites
- Crucella espartoensis2 sites
- Dictyomitra koslovae2 sites
- Mita2 sites
- Novodiacanthocapsa manifesta2 sites
- Spongostaurus hokkaidoensis2 sites
- Spongotripus2 sites
- Xitus asymbatos2 sites
- Amphipyndax1 site
- Archaeodictyomitra1 site
- Archaeodictyomitra riedeli1 site
- Archaeospongoprunum salumi1 site
- Artostrobium tina1 site
- Crucella1 site
- Diacanthocapsa1 site
- Dictyomitra1 site
- Dictyomitra densicostata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Xitus takayanagii, 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- Cretaceous radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Urakawa and Obira areas, Hokkaido2
- Radiolarian biostratigraphic study of the Hakobuchi Group in the Nakatonbetsu area, north Hokkaido1
Each of the 3 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 takayanagii 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 takayanagii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xitus takayanagii 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 Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Taketani 1982