Schizomavella auriculata

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
- SchizomavellaPBDB
- 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 6.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 129 ka.
7 occurrences of Schizomavella auriculata 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
7 occurrences- Oligocene5%
- Miocene52%
- Pliocene14%
- Pleistocene29%
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 Schizomavella auriculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Schizomavella auriculata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Schizomavella auriculata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
364 taxa- Calloporina decorata4 sites
- Ceriopora palmata4 sites
- Colletosia radiata4 sites
- Costazia costazi4 sites
- Escharina vulgaris4 sites
- Escharoides coccinea4 sites
- Hagiosynodos latus4 sites
- Hippopleurifera surgens4 sites
- Microporella ciliata4 sites
- Onychocella angulosa4 sites
- Schizoporella longirostris4 sites
- Schizotheca fissa4 sites
- Calpensia nobilis3 sites
- Chaperia annulus3 sites
- Chorizopora brongniartii3 sites
- Cryptosula pallasiana3 sites
- Escharoides megalota3 sites
- Hippoporina canui3 sites
- Schedocleidochasma incisa3 sites
- Therenia montenati3 sites
- Turbicellepora coronopus3 sites
- Arthropoma latigastra2 sites
- Buffonellaria entomostoma2 sites
- Conopeum reticulum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Schizomavella auriculata, 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
4 references- Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne)4
- Spectacular preservation of seagrasses and seagrass-associated communities from the Pliocene of Rhodes, Greece1
- Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria1
- Fossil bryozoa from the Pleistocene of Southern California1
Each of the 7 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 Schizomavella auriculata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Alison M. Fortunato
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Schizomavella auriculata 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 itSchizomavella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hassall 1842)