Zygosella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZygobolbinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Zygosella on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
5 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
3 formations
- Rose Hill Formation · Clinton Group2
- Neahga Shale Formation · Clinton Group1
- Willowvale Formation · Clinton Group1
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The named rock units Zygosella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Zygosella and its relatives
SilurianWhere Zygosella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Chonetes4 sites
- Liocalymene3 sites
- Mastigobolbina3 sites
- Plethobolbina3 sites
- Schuchertella3 sites
- Tentaculites3 sites
- Calymene2 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Coelospira2 sites
- Craniops2 sites
- Dalmanella2 sites
- Dalmanites2 sites
- Lingula2 sites
- Pterinea2 sites
- Acanthoclema1 site
- Amphistrophia1 site
- Anoplotheca1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Atrypina1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bonnemaia1 site
- Brachyprion1 site
- Bucanella1 site
- Buthotrephis gracilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Zygosella, 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
4 references- Silurian System of West Virginia2
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Richfield Springs and Cooperstown Quadrangles, New York1
- Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island1
- The Clinton of Western and Central New York1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Zygosella 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 Zygosella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zygosella 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 itZygobolbinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Bassler 1923