Zittelina orbis

No picture of Zittelina orbis 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 Zittelina orbis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ZittelinaPBDB
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 least 3.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 8 of 8 occurrencesLate Jurassic162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157.9 Mya154.8 Mya162 Mya148.7 Mya

8 occurrences of Zittelina orbis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

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

Wildegg — 47.43°N, 8.18°E

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The named rock units Zittelina orbis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zittelina orbis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Zittelina orbis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

39 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Zittelina orbis, 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

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

No 3D scan of Zittelina orbis 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 itZittelina through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Quenstedt 1858)