Zonobythites cornifer
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZonobythitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 45.7 Mya and 39.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Zonobythites cornifer 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
5 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Zonobythites cornifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zonobythites cornifer and its relatives
EoceneWhere Zonobythites cornifer and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Platycephalus parapercoides4 sites
- Pseudanthias multicrenatus4 sites
- Rhynchoconger eocenicus4 sites
- Ampheristus pentlandensis3 sites
- Symphysanodon inamata3 sites
- Trachichthodes pulcher3 sites
- Waitakia3 sites
- Aulopus pristinus2 sites
- Macrurulus immanis2 sites
- Paraulopus rallus2 sites
- Pseudaequalobythites biplex2 sites
- Scopelosaurus brevirostris2 sites
- Ampheristus sinuocaudatus1 site
- Antigonia artata1 site
- Argentinidae1 site
- Cephalopholis aotearoa1 site
- Conger davidsmithi1 site
- Dibranchus geniculatus1 site
- Eomyctophum broncus1 site
- Parapercis richardsoni1 site
- Pseudanthias1 site
- Tonganago fastigatus1 site
- Tonganago wharenga1 site
- Tripterophycis immutatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Zonobythites cornifer, 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 5 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
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No picture of Zonobythites cornifer 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 Zonobythites cornifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zonobythites cornifer 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 itZonobythites through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schwarzhans 2019