Zenion vetustus
No picture of Zenion vetustus 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 Zenion vetustus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZenionPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Zeiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Zeiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Zeiformes
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Zenion vetustus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Zenion vetustus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zenion vetustus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Zenion vetustus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Bregmaceros2 sites
- Conger2 sites
- Diaphus2 sites
- Epigonus2 sites
- Glyptophidium2 sites
- Melamphaes acanthifer2 sites
- Onuxodon2 sites
- Opisthoproctus2 sites
- Perca lactarioides2 sites
- Polymetme2 sites
- Valenciennellus brzobohatyi2 sites
- "Batrachoides" trapezoidalis1 site
- Alepisauridae1 site
- Antigonia angusta1 site
- Apogon1 site
- Ariidae1 site
- Bathyclupea1 site
- Batrachoididae1 site
- Carapus1 site
- Centroberyx1 site
- Cepola1 site
- Cepola rostislavi1 site
- Chaunax1 site
- Citharus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Zenion vetustus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Zenion vetustus 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 Zenion vetustus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zenion vetustus 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 itZenion through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lin et al. 2017