Schizodus australis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SchizodusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Trigoniida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Trigoniida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Trigoniida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 3.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 293.52 Mya and 290.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Schizodus australis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
9 occurrences- Permian100%
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
5 formations
- Wasp Head Formation4
- Spreyton Formation2
- Swifts Jetty Sandstone Formation · Masseys Creek Group1
- Inglis Formation · Golden Valley Group1
- Bundella Formation1
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The named rock units Schizodus australis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Schizodus australis and its relatives
PermianWhere Schizodus australis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Pyramus laevis6 sites
- Trigonotreta stokesi4 sites
- Deltopecten illawarrensis3 sites
- Etheripecten tenuicollis3 sites
- Eurydesma cordatum3 sites
- Keeneia ocula3 sites
- Pachymyonia morrisi3 sites
- Tomiopsis konincki3 sites
- Ambikella elongata2 sites
- Australomya hillae2 sites
- Cyrtella allandalensis2 sites
- Eurydesma2 sites
- Megadesmus globlosus2 sites
- Megadesmus globosus2 sites
- Megadesmus pristinus2 sites
- Peruvispira2 sites
- Phestia darwini2 sites
- Strophalosia concentrica2 sites
- Warthia2 sites
- Arctitreta costellata1 site
- Aviculopecten1 site
- Eurydesma hobartense1 site
- Geothomasia branxtonensis1 site
- Keeneia platyschismoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Schizodus australis, 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
3 references- Hellyerian and Tamarian (Late Carboniferous-Lower Permian) invertebrate faunas from Tasmania5
- Permian fossils from the Southern extremity of the Sydney Basin3
- The age of the Permian sequence in the southern part of the Sydney Basin1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Schizodus australis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Schizodus australis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Schizodus australis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSchizodus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Runnegar 1969)