Schizophoria vulvaria

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SchizophoriaPBDB
- 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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Schizophoria vulvaria 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
6 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
4 formations
- Arauz Formation · Abadia Group2
- Castellar Formation1
- Molino Formation1
- Valporquero Formation · La Vid Group1
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The named rock units Schizophoria vulvaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Schizophoria vulvaria and its relatives
DevonianWhere Schizophoria vulvaria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Euryspirifer3 sites
- Rugosa3 sites
- Combophyllum2 sites
- Dictyostrophia (Plicostropheodonta)2 sites
- Eodevonaria2 sites
- Nowakia2 sites
- Paraspirifer2 sites
- Plectodonta (Dalejodiscus)2 sites
- Pleurodictyum2 sites
- Subcuspidella2 sites
- Uncinulus2 sites
- Acrospirifer1 site
- Alatiformia1 site
- Anathyris1 site
- Arduspirifer1 site
- Arduspirifer arduennensis1 site
- Asteropyge (Comura)1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Beyrichiidae1 site
- Bifida1 site
- Bojodouvillina1 site
- Brachyspirifer1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Schizophoria vulvaria, 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- The Devonian of Celtiberia (Spain) and Devonian paleogeography of SW Europe2
- Silur und Devon im Arauz-Gebiet (Prov. Palencia, N-Spanien)2
- Fossile Brachiopoden aus der Sammlung von Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733) auf dem Hintergrund der frühneuzeitlichen Paläontologie1
- Thamnopora und verwandte ästige tabulate Korallen aus dem Emsium bis Unter-Eifelium von Asturien (Devon; Nord-Spanien) [Thamnopora and related ramose tabulate corals from the Emsian to the Lower Eifelian of Asturias (Devonian; Spain)]1
Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Schizophoria vulvaria
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Schizophoria vulvaria 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 itSchizophoria through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Schlotheim 1820)