Schizoporella cornuta

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SchizoporellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
12 occurrences of Schizoporella cornuta on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
12 occurrences- Miocene8%
- Pliocene67%
- Pleistocene25%
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
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group7
- Gatun Formation1
- Moin Formation · Limon Group1
- San Diego Formation1
- Santa Barbara Formation1
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The named rock units Schizoporella cornuta 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.
Schizoporella cornuta and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Schizoporella cornuta and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
375 taxa- Cupuladria biporosa4 sites
- Cupuladria canariensis4 sites
- Discoporella4 sites
- Hippoporella gorgonensis4 sites
- Antillocyathus gracilis3 sites
- Characodoma3 sites
- Mamillopora3 sites
- Paracyathus adetos3 sites
- Arca (Arca) sisquocensis2 sites
- Biflustra savartii2 sites
- Cellaria mandibulata2 sites
- Chapperia patula2 sites
- Colletosia radiata2 sites
- Diaperoecia californica2 sites
- Hippothoa hyalina2 sites
- Lagenipora punctulata2 sites
- Lucina (Epilucina) californica2 sites
- Microporella californica2 sites
- Microporella ciliata2 sites
- Modiolatus rectus2 sites
- Nellia tenella2 sites
- Opalia borealis2 sites
- Oxysmilia pliocenica2 sites
- Panopea generosa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Schizoporella cornuta, 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- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama9
- The geology and paleontology of the marine Pliocene of San Diego, California. Part 2a, Paleontology1
- Late Pleistocene Invertebrates from Punta Cabras, Baja California, Mexico1
- Fossil bryozoa from the Pleistocene of Southern California1
Each of the 12 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 Schizoporella cornuta
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Alison M. Fortunato
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Schizoporella cornuta 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 itSchizoporella through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb and Horn 1862)