Palaeozygopleuridae

Palaeozygopleuridae is an extinct taxonomic family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs.

Loxonema hamiltoniae (Hall, 1859), a relative of Palaeozygopleuridae — not Palaeozygopleuridae itself

Not Palaeozygopleuridae. This is Loxonema hamiltoniae (Hall, 1859), a relative — both are Palaeozygopleuridae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LoxonematoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 158 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 269 occurrencesSilurian — about 4 of 269 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 219 of 269 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 40 of 269 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 269 occurrencesPermian447–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–421 Mya — about 3 occurrences421–415 Mya — about 5 occurrences415–409 Mya — about 30 occurrences409–402 Mya — about 11 occurrences402–396 Mya — about 9 occurrences396–390 Mya — about 30 occurrences390–383 Mya — about 95 occurrences383–377 Mya — about 30 occurrences377–371 Mya — about 6 occurrences371–364 Mya — about 1 occurrence364–358 Mya — about 4 occurrences358–351 Mya — about 10 occurrences351–345 Mya — about 6 occurrences345–339 Mya — about 2 occurrences339–332 Mya — about 9 occurrences332–326 Mya — about 7 occurrences326–320 Mya — about 3 occurrences320–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–307 Mya — about 2 occurrences307–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–288 Mya — about 1 occurrence288–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–275 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences269–263 Mya — about 2 occurrences263–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence422.7 Mya264.28 Mya447 Mya256 Mya

269 occurrences of Palaeozygopleuridae on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

269 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

88 formations

Skaneateles — 42.87°N, 77.88°WSkaneateles — 42.81°N, 76.81°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 75.99°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 75.93°WSkaneateles — 42.88°N, 76.31°WSkaneateles — 42.89°N, 76.13°WMoscow — 42.70°N, 76.75°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 78.68°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.73°WMoscow — 42.79°N, 76.15°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 76.03°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 75.48°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.15°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WPraha — 50.03°N, 14.38°EPraha — 50.05°N, 14.40°EPraha — 49.98°N, 14.18°EPraha — 49.92°N, 14.08°EPraha — 49.91°N, 14.05°ELudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.95°N, 76.02°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.37°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.51°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.75°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 75.54°WDaleje-Trebotov — 50.03°N, 14.35°EColumbus Limestone — 40.21°N, 83.18°WColumbus Limestone — 40.11°N, 83.14°WTorquay — 50.47°N, 3.50°WGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.52°S, 24.74°EGydo — 33.33°S, 19.37°EGydo — 32.64°S, 19.41°EGydo — 33.31°S, 22.43°EGydo — 34.01°S, 23.46°EMarcellus — 42.95°N, 75.68°WMarcellus — 42.95°N, 75.67°WMarcellus — 42.90°N, 75.62°WMarcellus — 42.51°N, 74.05°WCürten — 50.40°N, 8.18°ECürten — 50.52°N, 6.56°EDangarfield — 32.05°S, 150.92°EDangarfield — 32.03°S, 150.97°ESchwelm — 51.28°N, 7.28°ESchwelm — 51.35°N, 7.58°ERoteisenstein — 51.37°N, 8.70°ERoteisenstein — 50.31°N, 7.61°EJennings — 39.51°N, 78.55°WJennings — 39.65°N, 78.76°WJennings — 39.41°N, 79.41°WDvorce-Prokop — 50.03°N, 14.37°EKowala — 50.80°N, 20.57°EKowala — 50.92°N, 20.63°ELucas — 42.17°N, 83.18°WLucas — 41.68°N, 83.74°WKersadiou — 48.32°N, 4.23°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.00°WPapilio Mudstone — 19.50°S, 144.73°EWassonville — 41.48°N, 91.83°WLochkov — 50.03°N, 14.40°ELochkov — 49.92°N, 14.02°EHaney Limestone — 38.08°N, 89.97°WOrlej Limestone — 50.07°N, 19.63°E

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The named rock units Palaeozygopleuridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 64 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeozygopleuridae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Palaeozygopleuridae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

2,499 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 197 sites for Palaeozygopleuridae, 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

99 references

Each of the 269 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. 87 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 content1

Picture of Loxonema hamiltoniae (Hall, 1859)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeozygopleuridae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itLoxonematoidea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Horný 1955