Schizophoria

Searched as Schizophoria fossula fossula. The Paleobiology Database treats Schizophoria as the accepted name.

Schizophoria is an extinct genus of brachiopod belonging to the superfamily Enteletoidea. Specimens have been found in Devonian through Permian beds in North America, Australia, central and southeast Asia, and eastern Europe.

Schizophoria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SchizophoriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 6.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 0 of 4 occurrencesDevonian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesDevonian420–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420.1 Mya412.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Schizophoria on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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.

Schizophoria and its relatives

Devonian

Where Schizophoria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,383 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 977 sites for Schizophoria, and this reads 240 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

1 reference

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Schizophoria

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSchizophoriidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (King 1850)