Zelophyllum

No picture of Zelophyllum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Zelophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PycnostylidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 39 occurrencesSilurian — about 30 of 39 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 9 of 39 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 3 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 2 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 3 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 4 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–425 Mya — about 2 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 2 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 3 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 2 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 2 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438.6 Mya413.02 Mya444 Mya392 Mya

39 occurrences of Zelophyllum 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

39 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

20 formations

Siyak — 53.10°N, 57.43°ESiyak — 52.97°N, 57.02°EGazelle — 41.31°N, 122.67°WGazelle — 41.43°N, 122.77°WGazelle — 41.51°N, 122.59°WHeceta — 55.83°N, 133.58°WKeyser Limestone — 41.00°N, 77.00°WKeyser Limestone — 38.00°N, 80.00°WDayanmen — 31.48°N, 108.18°EHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WMcMonnigal Limestone — 39.09°N, 116.85°WIsfara — 39.95°N, 70.50°ENingqiang — 32.67°N, 105.97°EKlenova — 71.00°N, 58.00°EHavalbet — 40.00°N, 67.00°EJifuke — 44.00°N, 83.00°EUpper Kaochaitien — 26.63°N, 106.80°E"Rongxi 2" — 31.03°N, 110.33°EShihniulan — 28.55°N, 106.87°EXibiehe — 42.00°N, 110.00°ETurkparidinskaya — 39.00°N, 69.00°EShiniulan — 27.30°N, 105.27°ENowshera — 34.00°N, 71.97°ESükhbaatar — 46.67°N, 113.27°E

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The named rock units Zelophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zelophyllum and its relatives

Silurian

Where Zelophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

432 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Zelophyllum, 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

17 references

Each of the 39 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. 5 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 Zelophyllum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Zelophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Zelophyllum 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.

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. Wedekind 1927