Zootecus
Zootecus is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Achatinidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SubulinidaePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Subulinidae
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Zootecus on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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- Eocene20%
- Pliocene10%
- Pleistocene30%
- Holocene40%
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 Zootecus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
140 taxa- Lanistes3 sites
- Pila3 sites
- Bellamya unicolor2 sites
- Canis aureus2 sites
- Clarias2 sites
- Cleopatra bulimoides2 sites
- Corbicula consobrina2 sites
- Crocodylus2 sites
- Etheria elliptica2 sites
- Felis silvestris2 sites
- Giraffa camelopardalis2 sites
- Hippopotamus amphibius2 sites
- Hippotragus equinus2 sites
- Hyaena hyaena2 sites
- Hystrix cristata2 sites
- Lates niloticus2 sites
- Limicolaria2 sites
- Loxodonta africana2 sites
- Ourebia ourebi2 sites
- Panthera leo2 sites
- Panthera pardus2 sites
- Phacochoerus aethiopicus2 sites
- Plectropterus gambensis2 sites
- Pupoides2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Zootecus, 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
4 references- A revision of the faunal remains from two central Sudanese sites: Khartoum Hospital and Esh Shaheinab2
- Palaeogene continental molluscs of Oman1
- Neogene and Quaternary Mollusca from the Makran Coast, Pakistan1
- The Pleistocene Fauna and Flora of Kharga Oasis,Egypt1
Each 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. 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 content1
Picture of Zootecus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Zootecus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Zootecus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSubulinidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Westerlund 1887