Zygopleura

Zygopleura is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Zygopleuridae.

Zygopleura

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
ZygopleurinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Loxonematoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 264 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 204 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 9 of 204 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 16 of 204 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 5 of 204 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 51 of 204 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 97 of 204 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 11 of 204 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 11 of 204 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 204 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 204 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 204 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 204 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 204 occurrences365–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–344 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences344–333 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences333–322 Mya — about 3 occurrences322–311 Mya — about 1 occurrence311–300 Mya — about 4 occurrences300–290 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences290–279 Mya — about 5 occurrences279–268 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences268–257 Mya — about 7 occurrences257–247 Mya — about 9 occurrences247–236 Mya — about 70 occurrences236–225 Mya — about 55 occurrences225–214 Mya — about 8 occurrences214–203 Mya — about 13 occurrences203–193 Mya — about 8 occurrences193–182 Mya — about 5 occurrences182–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–160 Mya — about 11 occurrences160–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences323.4 Mya59.24 Mya365 Mya42 Mya

204 occurrences of Zygopleura on record, most of them in the Late 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

204 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

47 formations

Cassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.55°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.59°N, 12.25°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.25°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.10°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.59°N, 12.26°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°ESciliar — 46.35°N, 12.02°ESchlern — 46.51°N, 11.57°EFődolomit — 47.49°N, 19.03°EFődolomit — 46.93°N, 17.40°EFődolomit — 46.97°N, 17.35°EFődolomit — 47.38°N, 18.34°EWeiyuanjiang — 23.93°N, 101.43°EMoenkopi — 39.10°N, 110.50°WMoenkopi — 38.24°N, 111.25°WMoenkopi — 39.00°N, 110.68°WNayband — 32.52°N, 57.37°ENayband — 32.00°N, 57.00°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EPayandé — 4.27°N, 75.10°WFord — 54.89°N, 1.41°WRaibl — 46.51°N, 11.58°EWann — 36.76°N, 96.01°WWann — 36.92°N, 95.81°WWann — 36.92°N, 95.90°WZamostie Limestone — 48.82°N, 19.47°EWestbury — 50.97°N, 2.96°WWestbury — 51.17°N, 3.27°WLuxembourg Sandstone — 49.74°N, 6.05°ELower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WMartin Bridge Limestone — 46.33°N, 116.73°WGansingen Dolomite — 47.53°N, 8.13°ECapitan — 31.90°N, 104.86°WCapitan — 31.90°N, 104.83°WZechstein — 50.72°N, 11.76°EZechstein — 50.70°N, 11.60°EWetterstein — 47.32°N, 11.41°EAtahoc — 9.46°S, 124.60°EPawnee — 35.02°N, 96.38°W

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The named rock units Zygopleura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zygopleura and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Zygopleura and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

2,239 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 123 sites for Zygopleura, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

64 references

Each of the 204 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. 52 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 Zygopleura

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itZygopleurinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.