Zadelsdorfia

Zadelsdorfia is an extinct genus belonging to the Gattendorfiinae subfamily, a member of the Goniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

No picture of Zadelsdorfia 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 Zadelsdorfia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GattendorfiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous359–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences353–353 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359.4 Mya346.2 Mya

5 occurrences of Zadelsdorfia 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

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

1 formation

Borden — 38.53°N, 83.48°W

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The named rock units Zadelsdorfia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zadelsdorfia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Zadelsdorfia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

39 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Zadelsdorfia, 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

3 references

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. 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 content0

No picture of Zadelsdorfia 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 Zadelsdorfia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Zadelsdorfia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGattendorfiidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weyer 1972)