Zhenganites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsaphidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 9.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 468 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 452.8 Mya.
8 occurrences of Zhenganites 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
8 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
- Dawangou Formation5
- Saergan Formation2
- Yinshan Formation · Qiulitag Group1
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The named rock units Zhenganites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zhenganites and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Zhenganites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Illaenus sinensis5 sites
- Liomegalaspides major5 sites
- Mioptychopyge trinodosa5 sites
- Nileus walcotti5 sites
- Ovalocephalus primitivus extraneus4 sites
- Birmanites brevicus3 sites
- Pseudocalymene quadrata3 sites
- Ampyxina2 sites
- Gog yangtzeensis2 sites
- Lisogorites tarimensis2 sites
- Nanillaenus2 sites
- Nanshanaspis tarimuensis2 sites
- Paraperaspis dawangouensis2 sites
- Shumardia tarimuensis2 sites
- Taklamakania xinjiangensis2 sites
- Telephina2 sites
- Telephina angulata2 sites
- Aphetoceras1 site
- Birmanites1 site
- Birmanites kanlingensis1 site
- Cameroceras1 site
- Carolinites ichangensis1 site
- Chisiloceras1 site
- Dideroceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Zhenganites, 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
3 references- Ordovician trilobites from the Dawangou Formation, Kalpin, Xinjiang, north-west China5
- Ordovician (Darriwilian-early Katian) trilobite faunas of northwestern Tarim, Xinjiang, China2
- Stratigraphic table of northwestern region of China: XinJiang Province part1
Each of the 8 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
Media content0
No picture of Zhenganites 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 Zhenganites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zhenganites 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAsaphidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yin 1978