Schizotherium

Schizotherium is an extinct genus of schizotheriine chalicothere known from the Oligocene of Europe and Asia.

Schizotherium

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
ChalicotheriidaePBDB
Diet
browserPBDB, for Chalicotherioidea
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Chalicotherioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Eocene — about 7 of 19 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33.9 Mya27.3 Mya38.2 Mya22.5 Mya

19 occurrences of Schizotherium on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

19 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

9 formations

Ergilin Dzo — 43.40°N, 109.10°EErgilin Dzo — 43.73°N, 111.25°EErgilin Dzo — 43.37°N, 108.66°EWulanbulage — 39.83°N, 108.73°EUlan Gocho — 42.63°N, 111.35°EUlantatal — 39.20°N, 105.57°EJiaozigou — 35.67°N, 103.38°EPaoniuquan — 40.50°N, 94.70°ECypress HIlls — 49.57°N, 109.88°WXianshuihe — 36.06°N, 103.79°EHanjiajing — 36.06°N, 103.79°E

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The named rock units Schizotherium 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.

Schizotherium and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Schizotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

225 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Schizotherium, 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

12 references

Each of the 19 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. 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 content1

Picture of Schizotherium

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Schizotherium 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.

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 itChalicotheriidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gervais 1876