Guadalupia zitteliana

Guadalupia zitteliana

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GuadalupiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Permian — about 76 of 76 occurrencesPermian284–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 1 occurrence267–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 3 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 10 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 10 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 10 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 10 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 10 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 4 occurrences274.4 Mya264.28 Mya283.8 Mya259.4 Mya

76 occurrences of Guadalupia zitteliana 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

76 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

11 formations

Capitan Limestone — 32.18°N, 104.35°WCapitan Limestone — 32.29°N, 104.34°WCapitan Limestone — 32.12°N, 104.45°WCapitan — 32.19°N, 104.36°WCapitan — 32.29°N, 104.35°WCapitan — 31.90°N, 104.86°WCapitan — 32.12°N, 104.45°WCapitan — 32.15°N, 104.50°WLas Delicias — 26.43°N, 102.88°WWord — 30.39°N, 103.18°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WCherry Canyon — 31.87°N, 104.87°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.30°N, 103.30°WBell Canyon — 31.83°N, 104.87°WBone Spring — 31.50°N, 104.91°WRoad Canyon — 30.38°N, 103.16°WSan Andres — 32.26°N, 104.74°WBrushy Canyon — 31.50°N, 104.90°W

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The named rock units Guadalupia zitteliana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Guadalupia zitteliana and its relatives

Permian

Where Guadalupia zitteliana and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

731 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Guadalupia zitteliana, 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

7 references

Each of the 76 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

Media content1

Picture of Guadalupia zitteliana

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGuadalupia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1909