Cyclozyga

No picture of Cyclozyga was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cyclozyga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudozygopleuridaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pseudozygopleuridae

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 375.2 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 15 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 14 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferous377–374 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences374–372 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences352–349 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences347–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330–327 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 1 occurrence312–310 Mya — about 2 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 2 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 2 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence372.15 Mya306 Mya377 Mya302 Mya

15 occurrences of Cyclozyga on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

15 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

12 formations

Dangarfield — 32.03°S, 150.97°EDangarfield — 32.05°S, 150.92°EAppanoose — 38.70°N, 90.39°WAllegheny — 40.69°N, 81.24°WHertha — 39.76°N, 93.80°WMartin — 34.75°N, 112.11°WRedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WMerlewood — 30.98°S, 150.51°EFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WPutnam Hill — 40.48°N, 81.45°WWashingtonville — 40.60°N, 81.31°WGlenshaw — 40.00°N, 81.72°WPottsville — 40.28°N, 81.72°W

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The named rock units Cyclozyga has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cyclozyga and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cyclozyga and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

501 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cyclozyga, 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 15 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 content0

No picture of Cyclozyga was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cyclozyga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cyclozyga 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 itPseudozygopleuridae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Knight 1930)