Zoophycos

Zoophycos is a somewhat cosmopolitan ichnogenus thought to be produced by moving and feeding polychaete worms.

A picture published with the record for Zoophycos. What it shows has not been checked.

Wilson44691 · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
IchnofossilsPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 533 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 161 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 161 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 161 occurrencesDevonian — about 107 of 161 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 15 of 161 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 161 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 161 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 161 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 161 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 7 of 161 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 161 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 161 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 15 of 161 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 161 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 161 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 161 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 161 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 161 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 161 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 161 occurrences648–626 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences626–604 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences604–583 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences583–561 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences561–540 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences540–518 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences432–410 Mya — about 1 occurrence410–389 Mya — about 6 occurrences389–367 Mya — about 100 occurrences367–345 Mya — about 4 occurrences345–324 Mya — about 9 occurrences324–302 Mya — about 3 occurrences281–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence216–194 Mya — about 3 occurrences194–173 Mya — about 4 occurrences173–151 Mya — about 3 occurrences151–130 Mya — about 14 occurrences130–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences538.8 Mya5.333 Mya648 Mya0 Mya

161 occurrences of Zoophycos on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

161 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

35 formations

Skaneateles — 42.80°N, 76.69°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.47°WSkaneateles — 42.97°N, 76.44°WSkaneateles — 42.95°N, 76.43°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.34°WSkaneateles — 42.94°N, 76.25°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 75.99°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.89°WSkaneateles — 42.95°N, 75.88°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 75.60°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.58°WSkaneateles — 42.88°N, 75.52°WSkaneateles — 43.00°N, 75.41°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.42°WSkaneateles — 42.82°N, 75.40°WSkaneateles — 42.79°N, 75.27°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.18°WSkaneateles — 42.87°N, 77.87°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 76.17°WGeneseo — 42.61°N, 75.30°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.38°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.61°N, 75.24°WGeneseo — 42.63°N, 75.46°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.86°WGeneseo — 45.65°N, 75.39°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 75.77°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WMoscow — 42.70°N, 78.95°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.62°N, 75.33°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.15°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WSchrambach — 47.91°N, 14.35°EHigh Tor Limestone — 51.63°N, 3.97°WHigh Tor Limestone — 51.50°N, 3.00°WSpartan Glacier — 70.75°S, 68.50°WMonte Zugna — 45.85°N, 11.05°EMonte Zugna — 45.85°N, 11.05°EMonte Zugna — 45.85°N, 11.05°ETully — 42.54°N, 75.10°WTully — 42.53°N, 74.81°WTully — 42.55°N, 74.92°WMospyne — 48.24°N, 39.34°EEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WChagrin Shale — 41.50°N, 81.70°WChagrin Shale — 41.59°N, 81.57°WYehlan — 22.00°N, 108.00°EShemshak — 36.43°N, 54.47°EChoucht — 31.56°N, 5.90°WGascons — 48.18°N, 64.98°WZorritas — 24.50°S, 69.50°WAbadia — 42.94°N, 4.54°WCortes — 42.97°N, 0.87°WPolentinos — 42.97°N, 0.87°WGustalapiedra — 42.97°N, 0.87°WHuesa — 41.00°N, 1.00°WJamal — 32.87°N, 50.07°ERossfeld — 47.69°N, 13.66°E

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The named rock units Zoophycos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zoophycos and its relatives

Devonian

Where Zoophycos and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

742 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 150 sites for Zoophycos, 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

40 references

Each of the 161 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. 28 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 content2

Picture of Zoophycos

Credit
Wilson44691
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Massalongo 1855