Schizobrachiella
Schizobrachiella is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Schizoporellidae.

Massimiliano DE MARTINO · 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
- SchizoporellidaePBDB
- 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 least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 129 ka.
6 occurrences of Schizobrachiella on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene67%
- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene17%
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 Schizobrachiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Schizobrachiella and its relatives
MioceneWhere Schizobrachiella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
184 taxa- Ceriopora palmata3 sites
- Chorizopora brongniartii3 sites
- Escharoides coccinea3 sites
- Figularia figularis3 sites
- Microporella ciliata3 sites
- Myriapora truncata3 sites
- Onychocella angulosa3 sites
- Schedocleidochasma incisa3 sites
- Buffonellaria entomostoma2 sites
- Calloporina decorata2 sites
- Calpensia nobilis2 sites
- Colletosia radiata2 sites
- Costazia costazi2 sites
- Crassimarginatella bobiesi2 sites
- Cribrilaria radiata2 sites
- Cryptosula pallasiana2 sites
- Escharoides megalota2 sites
- Hagiosynodos latus2 sites
- Hippopleurifera surgens2 sites
- Hippoporina longidens2 sites
- Mollia patellaria2 sites
- Schizoporella unicornis2 sites
- Schizotheca fissa2 sites
- Smittina marionensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Schizobrachiella, 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
5 references- Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne)2
- Late Miocene Bryozoa from the Guadalquivir Basin (SW Spain): eastern Atlantic and western Mediterranean environment and biogeography1
- Implications de la presence de mud-mound microbiens au Messinien (Sicile, Italie) [Implications of the presence of microbial mud-mounds in Messinian deposits (Sicily, Italy)]1
- Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland1
- New species of Tertiary Cheilostome Bryozoa from Victoria, Australia1
Each of the 6 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 Schizobrachiella
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Massimiliano DE MARTINO
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Schizobrachiella 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSchizoporellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Canu and Bassler 1920