Zeilleria delicatula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZeilleriaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 60 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Zeilleria delicatula on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Zeilleria delicatula 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.
Zeilleria delicatula and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Zeilleria delicatula and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Alloiopteris2 sites
- Aneimites2 sites
- Annularia2 sites
- Asterophyllites2 sites
- Asterophyllites charaeformis2 sites
- Calamites2 sites
- Cordaites2 sites
- Diplothmena cheathami2 sites
- Eremopteris2 sites
- Imparipteris heterophylla2 sites
- Lepidodendron aculeatum2 sites
- Lepidodendron obovatum2 sites
- Lepidophloios laricinus2 sites
- Neuralethopteris pocahontas2 sites
- Neuropteris2 sites
- Palmatopteris furcata2 sites
- Pecopteris (Alethopteris)2 sites
- Sphenophyllum2 sites
- Sphenopteris2 sites
- Sphenopteris pottsvillea2 sites
- Alethopteris valida1 site
- Archaeopteridium1 site
- Cyperites1 site
- Eusphenopteris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Zeilleria delicatula, 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
2 references- Plant Fossils of the Pennsylvanian System of Georgia1
- Plant Megafossils from the Carboniferous of Georgia, U.S.A1
Each of the 2 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 content1
Picture of Zeilleria delicatula
- 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 Zeilleria delicatula 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 itZeilleria through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sternberg 1884