Schischcatella
No picture of Schischcatella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Schischcatella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SemicosciniidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 5.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
5 occurrences of Schischcatella 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Schischcatella 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.
Schischcatella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Schischcatella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- ? Megaradialocrinus piriformis1 site
- Cupressocrinitidae1 site
- Eostenopora1 site
- Eucalyptocrinites rosaceus1 site
- Hexacrinites pateraeformis1 site
- Megaradialocrinus1 site
- Megaradialocrinus aliculatus1 site
- Megaradialocrinus anaglypticus1 site
- Megaradialocrinus crispus1 site
- Megaradialocrinus exsculptus1 site
- Megaradialocrinus limbatus1 site
- Megaradialocrinus piriculaformis n. sp.1 site
- Megaradialocrinus theissi n. sp.1 site
- Megaradialocrinus turritus1 site
- Mesophyllum (Mesophyllum)1 site
- Mimatrypa1 site
- Nyterops nyter1 site
- Primipilaria1 site
- Rhipidocrinus crenatus crenatus1 site
- Schnurella1 site
- Stringocephalus1 site
- Stringomimus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Schischcatella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach of the 5 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
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No picture of Schischcatella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Schischcatella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Schischcatella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSemicosciniidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waschurova 1964