Schizodus alpinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SchizodusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Trigoniida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Trigoniida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Trigoniida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
5 occurrences of Schizodus alpinus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
5 formations
- Amsden Formation1
- Red Tanks Formation1
- Madera Limestone Formation1
- Piauí Formation1
- McAlester Formation1
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The named rock units Schizodus alpinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Schizodus alpinus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Schizodus alpinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
147 taxa- Permophorus4 sites
- Linoproductus3 sites
- Polidevcia bellistriata3 sites
- Schizodus ulrichi3 sites
- Amphiscapha subrugosa2 sites
- Astartella concentrica2 sites
- Astartella subquadrata2 sites
- Aviculopecten2 sites
- Aviculopecten arctisulcatus2 sites
- Bakevellia2 sites
- Bellerophon graphicus2 sites
- Coopericus semisulcatus2 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa2 sites
- Echinaria2 sites
- Edmondia nebrascensis2 sites
- Euphemites2 sites
- Leptodesma welleri2 sites
- Lithophaga subelliptica2 sites
- Marmolatella subovata2 sites
- Meekella mexicana2 sites
- Meekopinna2 sites
- Orbiculoidea2 sites
- Paleyoldia2 sites
- Paleyoldia glabra2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Schizodus alpinus, 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- Stratigraphy and brachiopod and molluscan paleontology of the Red Tanks Formation (Madera Group) near the Pennsylvanian–Permian boundary, Lucero uplift, west-central New Mexico2
- Pennsylvanian Heteroconchia (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from the Piauí Formation, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil1
- Stratigraphy and geologic history of the Amsden Formation (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian) of Wyoming1
- Fauna of the McAlester Shale, Pennsylvanian, of Muskogee County, Oklahoma1
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
Media content1
Picture of Schizodus alpinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Schizodus alpinus 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 itSchizodus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1858)