Zygospira uphami
No picture of Zygospira uphami 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 Zygospira uphami, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Zygospira uphami 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group5
- Wise Lake Formation · Galena Group3
- Prosser Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Zygospira uphami has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zygospira uphami and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Zygospira uphami and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Cyclospira bisulcata8 sites
- Erratencrinurus vigilans8 sites
- Glyptorthis bellarugosa8 sites
- Hesperorthis tricenaria8 sites
- Hiscobeccus capax8 sites
- Parastrophina8 sites
- Pseudolingula iowensis8 sites
- Rafinesquina deltoidea8 sites
- Sowerbyella minnesotensis8 sites
- Strophomena trilobata8 sites
- Ceraurus pleurexanthemus7 sites
- Dinorthis meedsi7 sites
- Illaenus7 sites
- Isotelus gigas7 sites
- Paucicrura rogata7 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra6 sites
- Lingulasma6 sites
- Orbiculoidea6 sites
- Palaeoglossa6 sites
- Bumastus orbicaudatus4 sites
- Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) senaria2 sites
- Isotelus susae2 sites
- Rhynchotrema2 sites
- Bumastoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Zygospira uphami, 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- Biostratigraphy of the Middle and Late Ordovician cephalopods of the Upper Mississippi Valley area6
- Brachiopods and trilobites of the Sardeson Beds in the Twin Cities2
- The lower Silurian Brachiopoda of Minnesota1
Each of the 9 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 content0
No picture of Zygospira uphami 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 Zygospira uphami, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zygospira uphami 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. (Winchell and Schuchert 1892)