Zemacies finlayi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZemaciesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
13 occurrences of Zemacies finlayi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Zemacies finlayi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zemacies finlayi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Zemacies finlayi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Polinices (Polinices) subtenuis10 sites
- Saxolucina sharmani10 sites
- Hiatella tenuis7 sites
- Struthiolarella variabilis7 sites
- Colposigma capitanea6 sites
- Eurhomalea newtoni6 sites
- Colposigma euthenia5 sites
- Cyclorismina marwicki5 sites
- Ostrea seymourensis5 sites
- Periploma topei5 sites
- Mactra irizari4 sites
- Perissodonta laevis4 sites
- Austrobuccinum tuberosum3 sites
- Cominella crozieri3 sites
- Cyrtochetus (Cyrtochetus) bucciniformis3 sites
- Modiolus thomsoni3 sites
- Mya (Arenomya) nucleoides3 sites
- Sudonassarius antarctohimaleos3 sites
- Arcuatula sootryeni2 sites
- Arrhoges (Antarctohoges) diversicostata2 sites
- Austroficopsis wimani2 sites
- Bulla glacialis2 sites
- Cucullaea donaldi2 sites
- Cucullaea raea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Zemacies finlayi, 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
1 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Zemacies finlayi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Zemacies finlayi 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 itZemacies through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stilwell and Zinsmeister 1992