Schizolepis

No picture of Schizolepis 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 Schizolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ConiferalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 177 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 115 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 115 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 115 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 115 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 115 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 44 of 115 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 31 of 115 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 31 of 115 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 115 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 115 occurrences308–301 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences301–294 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences244–237 Mya — about 2 occurrences237–230 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences230–223 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences223–216 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences209–202 Mya — about 2 occurrences202–195 Mya — about 8 occurrences195–188 Mya — about 13 occurrences188–181 Mya — about 13 occurrences181–174 Mya — about 12 occurrences174–167 Mya — about 15 occurrences167–160 Mya — about 17 occurrences160–153 Mya — about 12 occurrences153–146 Mya — about 12 occurrences146–139 Mya — about 5 occurrences139–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–118 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118–111 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences111–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298.9 Mya121.4 Mya308 Mya96 Mya

115 occurrences of Schizolepis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

115 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

74 formations

Kok-Yangak Suite — 41.00°N, 73.20°EBerge Suite — 63.80°N, 127.40°EBerge Suite — 63.50°N, 118.80°ELower Vilyui and Marykchan Suites — 63.50°N, 118.80°ELower Vilyui and Marykchan Suites — 61.10°N, 126.80°EUst'-Balei Suite — 52.60°N, 104.00°EUkureyskaya — 52.52°N, 116.72°EChengzhi — 45.90°N, 133.00°EUpper Kushmur Suite — 52.50°N, 64.70°EUkugut Suite — 63.50°N, 119.00°ERaspad and Abashevo Suites — 54.50°N, 87.00°EDzhelon Suite — 55.00°N, 135.40°EDzhelon Suite — 55.20°N, 135.60°ELower Dzhaskoi Suite — 66.70°N, 123.30°EUpper Katynadyr Suite — 51.20°N, 58.60°EDzhaskoi Suite — 63.70°N, 118.10°EUpper Cheremkhovo Suite — 52.60°N, 104.00°EBukukun Suite — 49.40°N, 111.10°EIchetuy Suite — 51.00°N, 105.30°EIchetuy Suite — 51.30°N, 108.10°ELower Shurab Suite — 40.00°N, 70.50°EMorrison — 47.00°N, 110.00°WZhiluo — 40.30°N, 110.00°ENaizhishan — 43.60°N, 127.20°EDaxigou — 36.50°N, 104.00°EMulin — 45.90°N, 133.00°ELaiyang — 37.00°N, 120.60°EManketouwobuo — 44.80°N, 119.40°E

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The named rock units Schizolepis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schizolepis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Schizolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

460 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Schizolepis, 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

63 references

Each of the 115 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. 51 further references are not listed. 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 Schizolepis 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 Schizolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Schizolepis 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 itConiferales through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Braun 1847