Smittinella zealandiae

Smittinella zealandiae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SmittinellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 1.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 340 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23.04 Mya1.63 Mya34.6 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Smittinella zealandiae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

4 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.

Smittinella zealandiae and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Smittinella zealandiae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

94 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Smittinella zealandiae, 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 reference

Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Smittinella zealandiae

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Smittinella zealandiae 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 itSmittinella through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brown 1952