Zittelina
Searched as Zittelina fluegeli n. sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Zittelina as the accepted name.
No picture of Zittelina was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Zittelina itself, so it was not used. 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 Zittelina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KingeninaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Kingenidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Kingenidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Kingenidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Zittelina on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Zittelina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zittelina and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Zittelina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
305 taxa- Monticlarella14 sites
- Nucleata nucleata13 sites
- Pygope diphya13 sites
- Pygope janitor12 sites
- Nucleata9 sites
- Nucleata bouei9 sites
- Nucleata planulata9 sites
- Argovithyris8 sites
- Camerothyris8 sites
- Karadagithyris8 sites
- Karadagithyris bilimeki8 sites
- Lacunosella8 sites
- Monticlarella striocincta8 sites
- Cymopolia5 sites
- Dictyothyris kurri5 sites
- Dictyothyropsis tatrica5 sites
- Lacunosella (Lacunosella) arolica5 sites
- Lacunosella hoheneggeri5 sites
- Moeschia alata5 sites
- Neomeris5 sites
- Porifera5 sites
- Pseudocapillirhynchia brentoniaca5 sites
- Acicularia4 sites
- Elianella elegans4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Zittelina, 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 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Zittelina was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Zittelina itself, so it was not used.
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 Zittelina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zittelina 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 itKingeninae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rollier 1919