Zygospora spp.
No picture of Zygospora spp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Zygospora spp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Zygospora spp. 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
9 occurrences- Late Cretaceous11%
- Paleocene89%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Zygospora spp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zygospora spp. and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Zygospora spp. and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Pterospermella australiensis5 sites
- Araucariacites australis4 sites
- Cymatiosphaera4 sites
- Glaphyrocysta4 sites
- Lecaniella4 sites
- Liliacidites4 sites
- Liliacidites variegatus4 sites
- Proxapertites4 sites
- Pterospermella4 sites
- Batiacasphaera3 sites
- Leiosphaeridia3 sites
- Longapertites3 sites
- Nummus similis3 sites
- Senoniasphaera inornata3 sites
- Ulmodeipites patagonicus3 sites
- Achomosphaera2 sites
- Impagidinium2 sites
- Kallosphaeridium2 sites
- Manumilela rotunda2 sites
- Ovoidites2 sites
- Paralecaniela sp.2 sites
- Pterospermella aureolata2 sites
- Sparganiaceapollenites spp.2 sites
- Thalassiphora2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Zygospora spp., 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 9 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Zygospora spp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Zygospora spp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Zygospora spp. 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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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.