Zygomelon apheles

Zygomelon apheles

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ZygomelonPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 4.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPaleocene — about 7 of 7 occurrencesPaleocene66–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66.5 Mya61.2 Mya

7 occurrences of Zygomelon apheles on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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 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

2 formations

Sobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°W

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The named rock units Zygomelon apheles has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Zygomelon apheles and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Zygomelon apheles and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Zygomelon apheles, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Zygomelon apheles

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Zygomelon apheles 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itZygomelon through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stilwell et al. 2004