Xymene

Xymene is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the rock snails, found in New Zealand.

Xymene

GrahamBould · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrophoninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 3 of 19 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 19 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences37.71 Mya129 ka41.9 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Xymene on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

19 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

10 formations

Rifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°EMonte Leon Fm — 50.37°S, 69.05°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.23°S, 68.92°WWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°EOtahuhu — 36.95°S, 174.84°ESan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WMount Brown — 44.03°S, 170.72°EChenque — 48.30°S, 67.72°WWaiomio — 40.03°S, 175.48°EMonte Leon — 50.32°S, 68.86°W

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The named rock units Xymene has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xymene and its relatives

Miocene

Where Xymene and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

451 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Xymene, 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

10 references

Each of the 19 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. 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 content1

Picture of Xymene

Credit
GrahamBould
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Xymene 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTrophoninae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.