Schizophorella fallax
No picture of Schizophorella fallax 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 Schizophorella fallax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SchizophorellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Schizophorella fallax on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
5 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
4 formations
- Killey Bridge Formation2
- Glyn Formation1
- Cyrn-y-brain Formation1
- Portrane Limestone Formation · Duncannon Group1
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The named rock units Schizophorella fallax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Schizophorella fallax and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Schizophorella fallax and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Dalmanella testudinaria4 sites
- Eoplectodonta4 sites
- Plaesiomys porcata4 sites
- Glyptorthis maritima3 sites
- Leptaena rugosa3 sites
- Nicolella actoniae3 sites
- Sulevorthis humilidorsatus3 sites
- Acanthocrania2 sites
- Anisopleurella anceps2 sites
- Chonetoidea radiatula2 sites
- Christiania portlocki2 sites
- Cyclospira nana2 sites
- Diambonia discuneata2 sites
- Dicoelosia simulata2 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Kozlowskites) nuntius2 sites
- Eostropheodonta hirnantensis2 sites
- Hesperorthis2 sites
- Leptaena minuta2 sites
- Leptestiina oepiki2 sites
- Lingulella2 sites
- Luhaia2 sites
- Oxoplecia plicata2 sites
- Paterula2 sites
- Petrocrania2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Schizophorella fallax, 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- The Ashgill rocks of the Glyn Ceirog district, North Wales2
- The Ordovician Brachiopoda from Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone2
- The Fauna of the Potrane Limestone, II1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Schizophorella fallax 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 Schizophorella fallax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Schizophorella fallax was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSchizophorella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Salter 1846)