Zeilleria

Searched as Zeilleria mariae meridiana. The Paleobiology Database treats Zeilleria as the accepted name.

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 most 8.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 13 of 13 occurrencesEarly Jurassic193–193 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences192–192 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences192–192 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences189–189 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences189–189 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences187–187 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences187–187 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences185–185 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences185–185 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences193.4 Mya183.7 Mya

13 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

13 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

4 formations

Foix — 42.98°N, 1.58°EFoix — 43.02°N, 1.53°EFoix — 43.03°N, 1.41°ECerro del Pez — 41.29°N, 0.79°WBarre a Pecten — 43.05°N, 2.78°EEscales — 42.13°N, 1.76°EEscales — 41.89°N, 0.88°E

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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.

Zeilleria and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Zeilleria and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,409 taxa

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

2 references

Each of the 13 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

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itZeilleriinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bayle 1878