Zygopleura numidis
No picture of Zygopleura numidis 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 Zygopleura numidis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZygopleuraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Loxonematoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Zygopleura numidis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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.
Zygopleura numidis and its relatives
PermianWhere Zygopleura numidis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
83 taxa- Meekospira2 sites
- Micheliopsis lapparenti2 sites
- Mogulia daubenyi2 sites
- Palaeoneilo tebagaensis2 sites
- Precorynella crysanthemum2 sites
- Prestellispongia lobata2 sites
- Scutularia textilis2 sites
- Araeopora ramosa1 site
- Auriculospongia auriculata1 site
- Bradyphyllum1 site
- Chaetetes tabuliporoides1 site
- Claraia posidoniformis1 site
- Colospongia cortexifera1 site
- Cooperina inexpectata1 site
- Crurithyris opalinus1 site
- Cyclacantharia kingorum1 site
- Cyclocrista1 site
- Cyclopagoda sp.1 site
- Cyclotrypa1 site
- Cystothalamia conica1 site
- Discosiphonella mammilosus1 site
- Eotubertina sp.1 site
- Euphemites regulatus1 site
- Exotubispongia pustulata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Zygopleura numidis, 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 2 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 content0
No picture of Zygopleura numidis 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 Zygopleura numidis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zygopleura numidis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itZygopleura through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Termier and Termier 1977