Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeozygopleuraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Loxonematoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
60 occurrences of Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
60 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Skaneateles Formation · Hamilton Group23
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group14
- Marcellus Formation · Hamilton Group7
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group6
- Columbus Limestone Formation · Onondaga Group4
- Oatka Formation · Marcellus Group2
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The named rock units Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae and its relatives
DevonianWhere Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
443 taxa- Calvibembexia sulcomarginata24 sites
- Nuculoidea23 sites
- Nuculites oblongatus22 sites
- Devonochonetes scitulus21 sites
- Ambocoelia umbonata20 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus20 sites
- Mucrospirifer mucronatus19 sites
- Eldredgeops rana16 sites
- Lingula16 sites
- Longispina15 sites
- Retispira leda15 sites
- Protoleptostrophia perplana14 sites
- Sphenotus14 sites
- Devonochonetes13 sites
- Greenops boothi13 sites
- Mediospirifer audaculus13 sites
- Modiella13 sites
- Pterochaenia13 sites
- Athyris11 sites
- Glossites11 sites
- Leiorhynchus11 sites
- Modiomorpha11 sites
- Nucleospira concinna11 sites
- Nuculites11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae, 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
12 references- Quantitative Analysis of Paleocommunities in the Lower Part of the Hamilton Group near Cazenovia, New York18
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis9
- Regional variation and paleontology of two coral beds in the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group of Western New York7
- The Dynamics of Rapid, Asynchronous Biotic Turnover in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin of New York6
- Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of the Solsville member (Middle Devonian, Marcellus Formation) in the Chenango Valley, New York State6
- Comparative Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Middle Devonian Dark Gray and Black Shale Facies from Western New York4
- Stauffer, 19094
- Marcasite fauna in the Ludlowville Formation of western New York2
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Testing for faunal stability across a regional biotic transition: quantifying stasis and variation among recurring coral-rich biofacies in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin1
- Strata and megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation1
- Systematic paleontology of the Middle Devonian deposits of Maryland1
Each of the 60 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 content2

Picture of Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae
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3D model
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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 itPalaeozygopleura through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1859)