Zygospiraella venusta
No picture of Zygospiraella venusta 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 venusta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZygospiraellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Zygospiraella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Zygospiraella
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Zygospiraella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Zygospiraella venusta 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
7 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Zygospiraella venusta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zygospiraella venusta and its relatives
SilurianWhere Zygospiraella venusta and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Levenea qianbeiensis5 sites
- Dicoelosia cathaysiensis3 sites
- Eospirifer3 sites
- Katastrophomena maxima3 sites
- Leptellina (Merciella)3 sites
- Beitaia2 sites
- Epitomyonia2 sites
- Fardenia2 sites
- Songkanoceras2 sites
- Aegiria1 site
- Amplexoides1 site
- Athyrisinoides1 site
- Atrypina (Atrypinopsis)1 site
- Borealis1 site
- Brachyelasma1 site
- Ceriaster1 site
- Clathrodictyon1 site
- Climacograptus1 site
- Crassilasma1 site
- Cystiphyllum1 site
- Dolerorthis1 site
- Eospirigerina1 site
- Favositidae1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Zygospiraella venusta, 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
2 references- A New Survivor Species of Dicoelosia (Brachiopoda) from Rhuddanian (Silurian) Shallower-Water Biofacies in South China5
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China2
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. 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
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No picture of Zygospiraella venusta 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 venusta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zygospiraella venusta 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 itZygospiraella through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rong and Yang 1981