Palaeozygopleura tenuisulcata

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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 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 6 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 6 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 5 of 6 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 6 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419.62 Mya365.2 Mya445 Mya357 Mya

6 occurrences of Palaeozygopleura tenuisulcata 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

6 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

4 formations

Baggy — 51.15°N, 4.23°WBaggy — 51.12°N, 4.05°WTorquay — 50.47°N, 3.50°WCürten — 50.40°N, 8.18°EVaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°W

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

Palaeozygopleura tenuisulcata and its relatives

Devonian

Where Palaeozygopleura tenuisulcata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

222 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Palaeozygopleura tenuisulcata, 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

4 references

Each 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. 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 Palaeozygopleura tenuisulcata 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 Palaeozygopleura tenuisulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeozygopleura tenuisulcata 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 itPalaeozygopleura through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sandberger and Sandberger 1854)