Schizodus meekanus

No picture of Schizodus meekanus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Schizodus meekanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 4 occurrencesPermian325–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences314–311 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307 Mya266.9 Mya325 Mya259 Mya

4 occurrences of Schizodus meekanus 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

4 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

2 formations

Zhanjin — 33.72°N, 80.35°EWujiatun — 46.30°N, 121.30°E

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The named rock units Schizodus meekanus 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.

Schizodus meekanus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Schizodus meekanus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

38 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Schizodus meekanus, 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 4 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 Schizodus meekanus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Schizodus meekanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Schizodus meekanus 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 itSchizodus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1900