Zoila platypyga
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZoilaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
7 occurrences of Zoila platypyga on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
- Fyansford Formation3
- Abrakurrie Limestone Formation1
- Port Campbell Limestone Formation1
- Cadell Marl Formation · Morgan Group1
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The named rock units Zoila platypyga 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.
Zoila platypyga and its relatives
MioceneWhere Zoila platypyga and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Umbilia (Palliocypraea) gastroplax2 sites
- Umbilia (Umbilia) eximia2 sites
- Umbilia (Umbilia) leptorhyncha2 sites
- Zoila gigas2 sites
- Congridarum obrutus1 site
- Jetwoodsia apheles1 site
- Umbilia (Umbilia) siphonata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Zoila platypyga, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- A revision of the Australian fossil species of Zoila (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae)4
- A revision of the Australian genus Umbilia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae)1
- Geology of the Western Australian part of the Eucla basin1
- Report on a collection of fossils from the Lakes Entrance shaft, Gippsland, Victoria1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Zoila platypyga 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 Zoila platypyga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zoila platypyga 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 itZoila through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (McCoy 1876)