Zygospira kentuckiensis

Zygospira kentuckiensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ZygospiraPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Zygospira
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Zygospira
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Zygospira
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 6.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 8 of 8 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 8 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.1 Mya442.6 Mya

8 occurrences of Zygospira kentuckiensis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

8 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

3 formations

Georgian Bay — 45.75°N, 81.67°WGeorgian Bay — 45.75°N, 81.60°WGeorgian Bay — 45.74°N, 81.82°WGeorgian Bay — 45.93°N, 82.47°WWaynesville — 38.00°N, 85.50°WWhitewater — 45.90°N, 82.25°W

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The named rock units Zygospira kentuckiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zygospira kentuckiensis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Zygospira kentuckiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Zygospira kentuckiensis, 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

3 references

Each of the 8 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 Zygospira kentuckiensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Zygospira kentuckiensis 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.

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What may have been alongside itZygospira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Clarke 1895