Schizambon

Schizambon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SiphonotretidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 488.9 Mya to 450.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 5 of 41 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 36 of 41 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 41 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–494 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 1 occurrence489–487 Mya — about 1 occurrence487–485 Mya — about 2 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 3 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 2 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–476 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 1 occurrence470–468 Mya — about 2 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 3 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 4 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488.9 Mya450.2 Mya498 Mya442 Mya

41 occurrences of Schizambon on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

41 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

26 formations

Deadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDeadwood — 46.87°N, 103.30°WDeadwood — 46.83°N, 104.15°WHouse — 39.05°N, 113.38°WHouse — 38.70°N, 113.52°WBenbolt — 35.91°N, 84.09°WBenbolt — 36.72°N, 82.68°WJerrestad Shale — 57.78°N, 14.18°ENinemile — 39.20°N, 116.44°WCrown Point — 50.20°N, 63.50°WLaval — 47.00°N, 72.00°WLantz Mills — 38.53°N, 78.60°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMingan — 50.20°N, 63.50°WPlatteville — 44.98°N, 93.27°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNachusa — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.55°WVal d'Homs — 43.00°N, 2.00°EAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.65°WFillmore Limestone — 38.79°N, 113.64°WHouse Limestone — 39.50°N, 113.39°WBestogai — 43.62°N, 69.94°EPratt Ferry — 33.02°N, 87.08°WEdinburg — 36.93°N, 81.70°W

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The named rock units Schizambon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schizambon and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Schizambon and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

547 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Schizambon, 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

23 references

Each of the 41 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 Schizambon

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Schizambon 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 itSiphonotretidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1884