Zegalerus

Zegalerus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalyptraeidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Calyptraeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Calyptraeidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Calyptraeidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 129 ka.

Eocene — about 10 of 17 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 17 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence41.03 Mya774 ka49 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Zegalerus on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

17 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

7 formations

La Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.66°WSubmeseta — 64.26°S, 56.66°WRifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EOtahuhu — 36.95°S, 174.84°EIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.28°EWaiomio — 40.03°S, 175.48°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°E

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The named rock units Zegalerus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zegalerus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Zegalerus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

232 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Zegalerus, 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

7 references

Each of the 17 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 Zegalerus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Zegalerus 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finlay 1927