Schizoporella

Schizoporella is a genus of bryozoans in the family Schizoporellidae.

Schizoporella

British Museum · Public Domain · 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 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 9 of 145 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 145 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 70 of 145 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 145 occurrencesPleistocene — about 31 of 145 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 12 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 13 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 12 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 13 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

145 occurrences of Schizoporella on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

145 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

30 formations

Cayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WWataepoolan limestone — 37.93°S, 141.41°EWataepoolan limestone — 37.93°S, 141.51°EMyaring Beds — 37.77°S, 141.24°ENiebla Calcarenite — 37.35°N, 6.67°WCrystal River — 30.77°N, 85.23°WKhari Nadi — 23.40°N, 68.80°EMulege — 27.07°N, 111.97°WGlenaulin clay — 37.93°S, 141.41°EMt Brown "E" Limestone — 43.02°S, 172.71°ELomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WCrystal River Limestone — 30.77°N, 85.23°WPachuta Marl — 31.14°N, 87.94°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.25°WPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WTalbot — 38.15°N, 76.43°WGardiners Clay — 40.98°N, 72.32°WMcBean — 33.25°N, 81.93°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WMarianna Limestone — 31.93°N, 88.94°WRhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°E

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The named rock units Schizoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 90 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schizoporella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Schizoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,262 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Schizoporella, 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

44 references

Each of the 145 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. 32 further references are not listed. 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 Schizoporella

Credit
British Museum
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Schizoporella 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hincks 1877