Zapfella
No picture of Zapfella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Zapfella itself, so it was not used. 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 Zapfella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZapfellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Cirripedia
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Cirripedia
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 152.21 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Zapfella on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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- Late Jurassic100%
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.
Zapfella and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Zapfella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Actinastrea furcata4 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea4 sites
- Bakevelliidae4 sites
- Lithophaga4 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana4 sites
- Placophyllia minima4 sites
- Plagioecia4 sites
- Plicatula4 sites
- Pteroperna4 sites
- Serpula4 sites
- Ampullina3 sites
- Arcomytilus3 sites
- Calamophyllia3 sites
- Liostrea3 sites
- Lycettia3 sites
- Myophorella3 sites
- Nicaniella3 sites
- Ataphrus2 sites
- Axosmilia infundibuliformis2 sites
- Cyathophora2 sites
- Diplopodia2 sites
- Isocyprina2 sites
- Isognomon lusitanicus2 sites
- Lissochilus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Zapfella, 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 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Zapfella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Zapfella itself, so it was not used.
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 Zapfella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zapfella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itZapfellidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Saint-Seine 1956