Zuercherella zuercheri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZuercherellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 110.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Zuercherella zuercheri on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
14 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
5 formations
- Budden Canyon Formation5
- Lemgo Formation1
- Valle Grande Formation1
- Clansayes Formation1
- Tata Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Zuercherella zuercheri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Zuercherella zuercheri and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Zuercherella zuercheri and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Acanthohoplites5 sites
- Acanthohoplites aschiltaensis3 sites
- Ptychoceras laeve3 sites
- Uhligella3 sites
- Valdedorsella getulina3 sites
- Diadochoceras nodosocostatum2 sites
- Douvilleiceras2 sites
- Eodouvilleiceras clansayense2 sites
- Eotetragonites wintunius2 sites
- Hamites2 sites
- Hulenites reesidei2 sites
- Hypacanthoplites2 sites
- Kislovodskoceras kislovodskense2 sites
- Melchiorites melchioris2 sites
- Nanonavis breweriana2 sites
- Parahoplites2 sites
- Protacanthoplites bigoureti2 sites
- Pseudohaploceras matheroni2 sites
- Puzosia2 sites
- Acanthoplites aegis1 site
- Acanthoplites gardneri1 site
- Ancyloceras matheronianum1 site
- Argonauticeras argonautarum1 site
- Belemnites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Zuercherella zuercheri, 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
8 references- The genus Zuercherella Casey, 1954 in the Upper Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Cottonwood District, Northern California5
- A new genus Kislovodskoceras (Desmoceratidae, Ammonoidea) from the middle Aptian of the vicinity of Kislovodsk (Northern Caucasus)2
- The Cretaceous and Tertiary of southern Texas and northern Mexico2
- Aptian-Campanian ammonites of Hungary1
- Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and sedimentary dynamics of the Lower Cretaceous deposits on the northern side of the western High Atlas (Morocco)1
- Renz, 19821
- The Lower Cretaceous Brachiopods of east-central Sardinia1
- Einige Cephalopoden aus dem Apt des westlichen Norddeutschland1
Each of the 14 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 Zuercherella zuercheri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Zuercherella zuercheri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itZuercherella through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jacob et al. 1906)