Zygospiraella

Searched as Cryptospira. The Paleobiology Database treats Zygospiraella as the accepted name.

No picture of Zygospiraella was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Zygospiraella itself, so it was not used. 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 437 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Ordovician — about 4 of 120 occurrencesSilurian — about 79 of 120 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 120 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 120 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 120 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 120 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 120 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 120 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 120 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 120 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 120 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 120 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 120 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 120 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 120 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 120 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 120 occurrencesPliocene — about 13 of 120 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 120 occurrences458–443 Mya — about 4 occurrences443–428 Mya — about 77 occurrences428–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–0 Mya — about 29 occurrences443.1 Mya5.333 Mya458 Mya0 Mya

120 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

120 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

41 formations

Togopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EBecscie — 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°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°ETakuan — 27.73°N, 103.88°EBaghmara — 25.18°N, 90.67°EBaghmara — 25.27°N, 90.23°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ECilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°ERembang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EÕhne — 58.94°N, 25.98°EÕhne — 58.66°N, 25.75°EManitoulin — 45.83°N, 82.33°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EDzwinogorod 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°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. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 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

36 references

Each of the 120 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. 24 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. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Zygospiraella itself, so it was not used.

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. Laurie 1991