Amaurotoma zappa
No picture of Amaurotoma zappa 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 Amaurotoma zappa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmaurotomaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Microdomatidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Microdomatidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Amaurotoma zappa on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Amaurotoma zappa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amaurotoma zappa and its relatives
PermianWhere Amaurotoma zappa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Composita2 sites
- Grammatodon2 sites
- Naticopsis2 sites
- Orthonema2 sites
- Soleniscus2 sites
- Acutichiton nevadensis1 site
- Allorisma1 site
- Amphiscapha proxima1 site
- Anomphalus jaggerius1 site
- Apachella1 site
- Archaeocidaris1 site
- Arcochiton richardsoni1 site
- Astartella1 site
- Astartella subquadrata1 site
- Bairdioidea1 site
- Bakevellia1 site
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon)1 site
- Bellerophon deflectus1 site
- Colpites1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Crurithyris1 site
- Cryptostomida1 site
- Dielasma1 site
- Dielasma diabloense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Amaurotoma zappa, 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- Permian marine paleoecology and its implications for large-scale decoupling of brachiopod and bivalve abundance and diversity during the Lopingian (Late Permian)1
- Upper Wolfcampian (?) Mollusca from the Arrow Canyon Range, Clark County, Nevada1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Amaurotoma zappa 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 Amaurotoma zappa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amaurotoma zappa 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 itAmaurotoma through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Plas 1972