Zanthopsis vulgaris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZanthopsisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Zanthopsis vulgaris on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Unit B Formation1
- Tukwila Formation · Puget Group1
- Lincoln Creek Formation1
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The named rock units Zanthopsis vulgaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zanthopsis vulgaris and its relatives
EoceneWhere Zanthopsis vulgaris and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Pitar2 sites
- Acrilla (Ferminoscala) aragoensis1 site
- Acutostrea idrianensis fettkei1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Astreopra duwamishensis1 site
- Balanophyllia washingtonensis1 site
- Bathybembix columbiana1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cooperi1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis1 site
- Brisaster1 site
- Calorebama inornata1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Cantharus cowlitzensis1 site
- Clavus1 site
- Coeloma martinezensis1 site
- Colwellia1 site
- Cominella eocenica1 site
- Conus vaderensis1 site
- Conus weaveri1 site
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni1 site
- Crassatella washingtoniana1 site
- Cylichnina tantilla1 site
- Cymatium1 site
- Delectopecten1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Zanthopsis vulgaris, 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- Marine fauna of the middle Eocene Tukwila Formation, King County1
- Sedimentary and igneous rocks of the Grays River Quadrangle, Washington1
- The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America1
Each of the 3 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 content1
Picture of Zanthopsis vulgaris
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Zanthopsis vulgaris 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itZanthopsis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rathbun 1926