Zeilleria elliptica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZeilleriaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
26 occurrences of Zeilleria elliptica on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
26 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Zeilleria elliptica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Zeilleria elliptica and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Zeilleria elliptica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
148 taxa- Rhaetina gregaria10 sites
- Gastropoda9 sites
- Umbrostrea montiscaprilis7 sites
- Zeilleria norica7 sites
- Fissirhynchia fissicostata6 sites
- Rhaetina pyriformis6 sites
- Triadithyris gregariaeformis6 sites
- Zugmayerella uncinata6 sites
- Bivalvia4 sites
- Laballa suessi4 sites
- Neoretzia superba4 sites
- Oxycolpella oxycolpos4 sites
- Zeilleria austriaca4 sites
- Zugmayerella koessenensis4 sites
- Amphiclina intermedia3 sites
- Austrirhynchia cornigera3 sites
- Plectoconcha aequiplicata3 sites
- Plectoconcha newbyi3 sites
- Rhynchonella subrimosa3 sites
- Septocardia3 sites
- Thecospira haidingeri3 sites
- Adygella biplicata2 sites
- Anthozoa2 sites
- Aulacothyropsis pervulgatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Zeilleria elliptica, 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
9 references- Community structure, paleoecology, and depositional environments within the Upper Triassic Luning Formation of Nevada8
- Dagys, 19635
- Contributions to the fauna (corals, brachiopods) and stable isotopes of the Late Triassic Steinplatte reef/basin-complex, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria4
- Late Triassic brachiopods from the Luning Formation, Nevada, and their palaeobiogeographical significance3
- Untersuchungen über rhätische Brachiopoden2
- A contribution to the brachiopod fauna of the "Oberrhaetkalk" (Northern Calcareous Alps, Tyrol-Salzburg)1
- Triassic brachiopods of Romania1
- Triassic Brachiopoda1
- The brachiopods of the Norian locality Drnava (southern Slovakia)1
Each of the 26 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Zeilleria elliptica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Zeilleria elliptica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zeilleria elliptica 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 itZeilleria through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zugmayer 1882)