Zepaera
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ComptalutinaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Bradoriida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Bradoriida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Bradoriida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bradoriida
Time the record covers
At least 9.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 516 Mya to 506.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 497 Mya.
11 occurrences of Zepaera on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
11 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
- Ajax Limestone Formation6
- Tindall Limestone Formation · Daly River Group3
- Mernmerna Formation1
- Beetle Creek Formation1
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The named rock units Zepaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zepaera and its relatives
CambrianWhere Zepaera and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Eoobolus4 sites
- Lapworthella fasciculata4 sites
- Paterimitra pyramidalis4 sites
- Dailyatia helica3 sites
- Dailyatia macroptera3 sites
- Dorispira accordionata3 sites
- Kyrshabaktella3 sites
- Kyrshabaktella davidii3 sites
- Mongolitubulus3 sites
- Vandalotreta djagoran3 sites
- Westonia nyapungensis3 sites
- Anabarella2 sites
- Dailyatia ajax2 sites
- Davidonia2 sites
- Eothele napuru2 sites
- Micrina etheridgei2 sites
- Nganki wumirri2 sites
- Pelagiella subangulata2 sites
- Abadiella huoi1 site
- Anabarites1 site
- Anabarochilina1 site
- Aristaluta1 site
- Askepasma toddense1 site
- Bemella communis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Zepaera, 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
5 references- A new lower Cambrian shelly fossil biostratigraphy for South Australia4
- Cambrian palaeontology of the Daly Basin3
- The oldest bivalved arthropods from the early Cambrian of East Gondwana: Systematics, biostratigraphy and biogeography2
- Bivalved arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Mernmerna Formation, Arrowie Basin, South Australia, and their implications for identification of Cambrian ‘small shelly fossils’1
- Queensland Middle Cambrian Bradoriida (Crustacea): new taxa, palaeobiogeography and biological affinities1
Each of the 11 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 content0
No picture of Zepaera was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Zepaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zepaera 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 itComptalutinae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fleming 1973