Zeilleria

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZeilleriinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 245 million years on record.
The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 110.1 Mya.
922 occurrences of Zeilleria on record, most of them in the Early 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
922 occurrences- Devonianunder 1%
- Carboniferousunder 1%
- Permianunder 1%
- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassic16%
- Early Jurassic64%
- Middle Jurassic11%
- Late Jurassic7%
- Early Cretaceousunder 1%
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
105 formations
- Hierlatz Limestone Formation49
- Hierlatz Formation27
- Kossen Formation26
- Koessen Formation25
- Turmiel Formation24
- Pisznicei Mészko Formation23
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The named rock units Zeilleria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 81 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 416 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Zeilleria and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Zeilleria and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
1,409 taxa- Linguithyris aspasia36 sites
- Apringia paolii30 sites
- Liospiriferina alpina28 sites
- Liospiriferina sicula27 sites
- Securithyris adnethensis27 sites
- Apringia diptycha26 sites
- Bakonyithyris apenninica22 sites
- Viallithyris gozzanensis22 sites
- Bakonyithyris pedemontana21 sites
- Rhaetina pyriformis20 sites
- Liospiriferina19 sites
- Fissirhynchia fissicostata18 sites
- Bakonyithyris ovimontana17 sites
- Calcirhynchia plicatissima17 sites
- Chlamys17 sites
- Discohelix orbis17 sites
- Gastropoda17 sites
- Anticonulus lateumbilicatus16 sites
- Aulacothyris resupinata16 sites
- Eplenyithyris cerasulum16 sites
- Lokutella liasina16 sites
- Cisnerospira darwini15 sites
- Liospiriferina obtusa15 sites
- Lobothyris punctata15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 598 sites for Zeilleria, and this reads 240 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
142 references- Les brachiopodes liasiques des Pyrénées: paléontologie, biostratigraphie, paléobiogéographie et paléoenvironnements72
- Early Jurassic fauna and facies of the Schafberg area (Salzkammergut, Austria)49
- El Jurasico Inferior en la seccion de Almonacid de la Cuba (sector central de la Cordillera Iberica, Zaragoza, Espana) [Lower Jurassic at the Almonacid de la Cuba section (central sector of the Iberian Range, Zaragoza, Spain)]45
- The Pliensbachian brachiopods of the Bakony Mountains (Hungary)42
- A Dunántúli-középhegység hettangi és kora-szinemuri (kora-jura) brachiopoda faunája II37
- Les terebratulidae du Dogger dans le Mâconnais, le mont d'Or lyonnais et le Jura méridional: Étude systématique et biostratigraphique. Rapports avec la paléoécologie35
- Middle and Late Jurassic terebratulides from New Zealand32
- Zeilleria spiculata, a new terebratulide brachiopod from the latest Triassic-earliest Jurassic of New Zealand27
- Fauna, stratigraphy and depositional environment of the Hettangian-Sinemurian (Early Jurassic) of Adnet (Salzburg, Austria)23
- The geographical distribution of brachiopods in the British Middle Lias23
- Les Brachiopodes liasiques de la Bordure Sud du Massif Armoricain: Succession des peuplements et environnements ; chronostratigraphie21
- Stratigraphie und Biofacies der Koessener Formation (Obertrias, Nordliche Kalkalpen)21
Each of the 922 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. 129 further references are not listed. 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 Zeilleria
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- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Zeilleria 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bayle 1878