Schizoblastus sayi

Schizoblastus sayi

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
SchizoblastusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 342.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 0 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferous359–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–354 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences350–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359.4 Mya342.4 Mya

4 occurrences of Schizoblastus sayi on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

4 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

2 formations

Burlington — 37.32°N, 93.58°WBurlington — 39.44°N, 91.07°WBurlington — 39.72°N, 91.41°WReeds Spring — 36.14°N, 92.68°W

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The named rock units Schizoblastus sayi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Schizoblastus sayi and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Schizoblastus sayi and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Schizoblastus sayi, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 Schizoblastus sayi

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shumard 1855)