Zygites laevigatus
No picture of Zygites laevigatus 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 Zygites laevigatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZygitesPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Pleurotomarioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pleurotomarioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pleurotomarioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Zygites laevigatus on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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- Middle Triassic100%
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 Zygites laevigatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zygites laevigatus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Zygites laevigatus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Ananias guojiashanensis1 site
- Codinella1 site
- Euryalox1 site
- Gosseletina dangchangensis1 site
- Marmolatella complanata1 site
- Naticopsis (Dicosmos) compressus1 site
- Naticopsis (Dicosmos) declivis1 site
- Naticopsis (Vernelia) sublimneiformis1 site
- Naticopsis ribletella1 site
- Neodonaldina elongata1 site
- Neritaria candida1 site
- Neritaria ingrandita1 site
- Neritaria sphaeroidica1 site
- Omphaloptycha gansuensis1 site
- Platychilina obliqua1 site
- Platychilina sinensis1 site
- Triassocirrus1 site
- Trochotoma (Discotoma) gansuensis1 site
- Worthenia1 site
- Worthenia extendia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Zygites laevigatus, 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
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
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No picture of Zygites laevigatus 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 Zygites laevigatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zygites laevigatus 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 itZygites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tong and Erwin 2001