Pseudozygopleura contractus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudozygopleuraPBDB
- 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 6.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 312.8 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.6 Mya to 303.7 Mya.
5 occurrences of Pseudozygopleura contractus 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
5 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
4 formations
- Allegheny Formation2
- Putnam Hill Formation · Allegheny Group1
- Glenshaw Formation · Conemaugh Group1
- Pottsville Formation · Allegheny Group1
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The named rock units Pseudozygopleura contractus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudozygopleura contractus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Pseudozygopleura contractus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Cyclozyga attenuata4 sites
- Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) pinquicula4 sites
- Pseudozygopleura pluricostata4 sites
- Hyphantozyga perattenuata3 sites
- Plocezyga conica3 sites
- Plocezyga intermedia3 sites
- Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) peoriense3 sites
- Pseudozygopleura acuminata3 sites
- Pseudozygopleura deloi3 sites
- Pseudozygopleura sinuosior3 sites
- Pseudozygopleura tenuivirga3 sites
- Donaldina robusta2 sites
- Hemizyga attenuata2 sites
- Levizygopleura inornata2 sites
- Microptychis turbineus2 sites
- Palaeostylus (Palaeostylus) marvinwelleri2 sites
- Plocezyga delicata2 sites
- Plocezyga subnodosa2 sites
- Pseudobigalea crista2 sites
- Pseudozygopleura assertonsoris2 sites
- Pseudozygopleura eximia2 sites
- Pseudozygopleura funis2 sites
- Pseudozygopleura macra2 sites
- Pseudozygopleura plummeri2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pseudozygopleura contractus, 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- The Pennsylvanian gastropod Pseudozygopleura (Pseudozygopleura) from the Appalachian Basin4
- The Pennsylvanian gastropod genus Microtychis Longstaff in Ohio1
Each of the 5 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
Media content0
No picture of Pseudozygopleura contractus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Pseudozygopleura contractus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudozygopleura contractus 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 itPseudozygopleura through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hoare and Sturgeon 1981)