Zygospiraella

No picture of Zygospiraella 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 Zygospiraella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtatrypinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 83 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 79 of 83 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 83 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 6 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 19 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 19 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 9 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 8 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 4 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 2 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443.1 Mya422.7 Mya450.1 Mya419 Mya

83 occurrences of Zygospiraella on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

83 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

29 formations

Becscie — 47.32°N, 70.57°WBecscie — 49.70°N, 63.99°WBecscie — 49.47°N, 63.62°WBecscie — 49.42°N, 62.25°WBecscie — 49.50°N, 63.00°WBecscie — 49.31°N, 61.84°WBecscie — 49.72°N, 64.05°WKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°EMynaral — 45.28°N, 73.72°EMynaral — 45.36°N, 73.73°ENiuchang — 27.71°N, 107.39°ENiuchang — 27.71°N, 107.55°EVarbola — 58.89°N, 23.46°EVarbola — 58.68°N, 26.09°EVarbola — 58.71°N, 23.76°EVarbola — 58.80°N, 22.76°EMoyerokan — 67.31°N, 103.83°EMoyerokan — 67.34°N, 104.10°EXiangshuyuan — 27.52°N, 108.33°EXiangshuyuan — 27.52°N, 108.23°EWestfield Sandstone — 42.63°S, 146.50°ETakuan — 27.73°N, 103.88°EÕhne — 58.94°N, 25.98°EÕhne — 58.66°N, 25.75°EManitoulin — 45.83°N, 82.33°WDzwinogorod Beds — 49.08°N, 25.40°ESaelabonn — 60.17°N, 10.30°EWeir — 47.83°N, 65.50°WAnse Cascon — 47.83°N, 65.50°WChenxiacun — 34.00°N, 118.00°ELeijiatun — 28.00°N, 108.00°ELojoping — 30.77°N, 111.33°EPengjiayuan — 30.77°N, 111.33°EShihniulan — 28.55°N, 106.87°E"Shihniulan" — 27.80°N, 105.08°ESongkan — 28.55°N, 106.87°EShiwuzi — 30.72°N, 111.28°EKultash — 52.03°N, 90.48°E

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The named rock units Zygospiraella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zygospiraella and its relatives

Silurian

Where Zygospiraella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

551 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Zygospiraella, 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

23 references

Each of the 83 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 Zygospiraella 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 Zygospiraella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Zygospiraella 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. Nikiforova 1961