Schizoporella orbiculifera
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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 most 29 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Schizoporella orbiculifera on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
- Wataepoolan limestone Formation · Glenelg Group2
- Glenaulin clay Formation · Glenelg Group1
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The named rock units Schizoporella orbiculifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Schizoporella orbiculifera and its relatives
MioceneWhere Schizoporella orbiculifera and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Cellaria contigua7 sites
- Ogiva concamerata7 sites
- Porina gracilis6 sites
- Biflustra regularis5 sites
- Escharella elongata5 sites
- Escharoides duplicata5 sites
- Palmicellaria ornata5 sites
- Palmicellaria quadrifrons5 sites
- Smittinella tatei5 sites
- Trigonopora vermicularis5 sites
- Adeonellopsis yarraensis4 sites
- Chiastosella conservata4 sites
- Corbulipora ornata4 sites
- Cribrilina hebetata4 sites
- Didymosella larvalis4 sites
- Foveolaria thomasi4 sites
- Hincksina geminata4 sites
- Hippoporina burlingtoniensis4 sites
- Ramphonotus lusorius4 sites
- Smittina ordinata4 sites
- Vincularia gigantea4 sites
- Acerinucleus incudiferus3 sites
- Biflustra delta3 sites
- Bimicroporella watersi3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Schizoporella orbiculifera, 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
2 references- Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria7
- New species of Tertiary Cheilostome Bryozoa from Victoria, Australia1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Schizoporella orbiculifera 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 Schizoporella orbiculifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Schizoporella orbiculifera 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSchizoporella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Canu and Bassler 1935