Schizodus

Searched as Schizodus cheveriensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Schizodus as the accepted name.

Schizodus is an extinct genus of shallow marine clams. It lived from the Silurian to Late Permian periods.

Schizodus

via iDigBio · CC BY-NC-SA · via iDigBio. 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
SchizodidaePBDB
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 17 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous347–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences340–340 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences337–337 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347.2 Mya329.8 Mya

1 occurrence of Schizodus 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

1 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

1 formation

Macumber and White Quarry — 45.03°N, 64.09°W

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

Schizodus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Schizodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2,218 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 634 sites for Schizodus, and this reads 240 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content2

Picture of Schizodus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

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What may have been alongside itSchizodidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (King 1844)