Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus)
No picture of Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus) 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 Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZeacolpusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus) on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
7 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
2 formations
- Wangaloa Formation5
- Kauru Formation · Fuchsia Group2
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The named rock units Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus) and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus) and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Antalis4 sites
- Marwickia4 sites
- Lahillia3 sites
- Conchothyra2 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinobia)2 sites
- Glycymerita concava2 sites
- Ledina2 sites
- Panopea2 sites
- Spineilo2 sites
- Cucullaea (Cucullona)1 site
- Gari (Gari)1 site
- Heteroterma1 site
- Kaitangata1 site
- Lunatia1 site
- Magnatica (Spelaenacca)1 site
- Microfulgar sp.1 site
- Myrtea1 site
- Perissodonta1 site
- Polinices (Polinella)1 site
- Polinices (Polinices)1 site
- Priscaphander1 site
- Priscoficus1 site
- Pteromyrtea1 site
- Struthioptera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus), 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- Geology of Kaitangata Coalfield4
- The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision2
- Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus) 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 Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus) 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 itZeacolpus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Finlay and Marwick 1937)