Zygochlamys

Zygochlamys

King & Broderip, 1832 · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChlamydiniPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 50 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 43 of 50 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 50 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

50 occurrences of Zygochlamys on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

50 occurrences

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

10 formations

Puerto Madryn — 42.50°S, 64.25°WPuerto Madryn — 42.84°S, 64.88°WPuerto Madryn — 42.67°S, 64.98°WPuerto Madryn — 42.58°S, 64.59°WPuerto Madryn — 41.20°S, 69.15°WPuerto Madryn — 42.58°S, 64.32°WPuerto Madryn — 42.42°S, 64.48°WPuerto Madryn — 44.50°S, 65.27°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WChenque — 45.73°S, 67.50°WChenque — 45.42°S, 67.42°WEl Chacay — 47.33°S, 71.33°WEl Chacay — 47.42°S, 71.92°WEl Chacay — 47.53°S, 71.97°WEl Chacay — 48.25°S, 71.50°WEl Chacay — 48.50°S, 71.50°WEl Chacay — 47.50°S, 71.67°WEl Chacay — 48.83°S, 70.83°WRio Foyel — 41.73°S, 71.46°WRio Foyel — 41.73°S, 71.42°WSan Julian — 49.30°S, 67.72°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WSan Julián — 47.03°S, 66.70°WSan Julián — 49.30°S, 67.72°WGuadal — 47.00°S, 72.43°WMonte Leon — 49.53°S, 68.36°WMonte Leon — 50.32°S, 68.86°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WTubul — 37.83°S, 73.33°W

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The named rock units Zygochlamys 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.

Zygochlamys and its relatives

Miocene

Where Zygochlamys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

198 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Zygochlamys, 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

11 references

Each of the 50 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 Zygochlamys

Credit
King & Broderip, 1832
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Zygochlamys 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ihering 1907)