Zoila gigas

Zoila gigas

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ZoilaPBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Oligocene — about 3 of 14 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 14 occurrencesMiocene28–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23.04 Mya15.98 Mya27.8 Mya11.1 Mya

14 occurrences of Zoila gigas on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

14 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

9 formations

Jan Juc — 38.32°S, 144.32°EFyansford — 38.24°S, 145.03°EGellibrand — 38.52°S, 143.07°EGellibrand — 38.23°S, 143.13°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 31.77°S, 127.02°EGambier Limestone — 37.82°S, 140.64°ECurlewis — 38.18°S, 144.50°EPort Campbell Limestone — 37.72°S, 141.93°ENullarbor — 30.52°S, 131.51°EGippsland Limestone — 37.75°S, 148.40°E

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The named rock units Zoila gigas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Zoila gigas and its relatives

Miocene

Where Zoila gigas and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Zoila gigas, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

4 references

Each of the 14 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. 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 Zoila gigas

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itZoila through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (McCoy 1867)