Gamizyga morningstarae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GamizygaPBDB
- 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 most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 318.6 Mya and 306 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Gamizyga morningstarae 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
3 formations
- Pottsville Formation · Allegheny Group3
- Vanport Formation · Allegheny Group1
- Allegheny Formation1
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The named rock units Gamizyga morningstarae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gamizyga morningstarae and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Gamizyga morningstarae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Pseudozygopleura deloi4 sites
- Donaldina robusta3 sites
- Pseudozygopleura acuminata3 sites
- Ditomopyge scitula2 sites
- Hyphantozyga knighti2 sites
- Plocezyga conica2 sites
- Plocezyga lirata2 sites
- Pseudobigalea crista2 sites
- Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) pinquicula2 sites
- Pseudozygopleura macra2 sites
- Pseudozygopleura pluricostata2 sites
- Pseudozygopleura semicostata2 sites
- Pseudozygopleura tenuivirga2 sites
- Royalella quadrolirata2 sites
- Unklesbayella geinitzi2 sites
- Acutichiton pyrmidalus1 site
- Arcochiton raymondi1 site
- Cyclozyga attenuata1 site
- Glaphurochiton carbonarius1 site
- Helminthochiton simplex1 site
- Hemizyga attenuata1 site
- Hyphantozyga fusiforma1 site
- Hyphantozyga perattenuata1 site
- Levizygopleura inornata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Gamizyga morningstarae, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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 Gamizyga morningstarae 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 Gamizyga morningstarae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gamizyga morningstarae 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 itGamizyga through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hoare and Sturgeon 1980)