Zhanatellidae

Rowellella margarita Krause & Rowell, 1975, a relative of Zhanatellidae — not Zhanatellidae itself

Not Zhanatellidae. This is Rowellella margarita Krause & Rowell, 1975, a relative — both are Zhanatellidae.

Rowell, Albert J.; Krause, F. F. · CC BY 4.0 · 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
LinguloideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Linguloidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Linguloidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Linguloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 504.5 Mya to 461.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 508.2 Mya to 458 Mya.

Cambrian — about 49 of 119 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 70 of 119 occurrencesOrdovician509–507 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 2 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 2 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 2 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 2 occurrences499–497 Mya — about 3 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 4 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 4 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 16 occurrences492–490 Mya — about 6 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 3 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 3 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 8 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 8 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 9 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 9 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 9 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 5 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 5 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 11 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 3 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 3 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504.5 Mya461.4 Mya509 Mya457 Mya

119 occurrences of Zhanatellidae on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

119 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

23 formations

House — 39.05°N, 113.38°WHouse — 38.87°N, 113.35°WHouse — 38.70°N, 113.52°WBestogai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EZhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EEmanuel — 18.65°S, 125.92°EFillmore — 38.87°N, 113.35°WFillmore — 38.78°N, 113.65°WTrenice — 50.00°N, 14.00°ETrenice — 49.78°N, 13.68°ETrenice — 50.58°N, 15.02°EDeh-Molla U16 — 36.36°N, 54.75°EQumes — 36.21°N, 54.23°EValhallfonna — 79.85°N, 17.67°ENotch Peak — 38.75°N, 113.50°WMilina — 49.80°N, 13.80°ESimeh-Kuh — 36.21°N, 54.22°EAkbulaksai — 50.45°N, 57.73°ELeetse — 59.88°N, 31.59°EOlenek — 72.69°N, 124.51°E"Dolodrook River Limestone" — 37.60°S, 146.63°EKaragajly — 42.85°N, 76.05°ESarykumy — 46.98°N, 74.13°EZhalgyz — 45.11°N, 73.99°EAktas — 43.53°N, 69.95°EGullhögen — 58.38°N, 13.82°EOrr — 39.45°N, 113.80°WEirina — 72.70°N, 124.50°E

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The named rock units Zhanatellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zhanatellidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Zhanatellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

291 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 80 sites for Zhanatellidae, 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 119 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 content1

Picture of Rowellella margarita Krause & Rowell, 1975

Source
GBIF
Credit
Rowell, Albert J.; Krause, F. F.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Zhanatellidae 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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What may have been alongside itLinguloidea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koneva 1986