Schizotreta walkeri

Schizotreta walkeri

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
SchizotretaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lingulida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lingulida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lingulida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 422.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Silurian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceSilurian433–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433.4 Mya422.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Schizotreta walkeri on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

Wenlock Shale — 52.63°N, 2.52°W

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

Schizotreta walkeri and its relatives

Silurian

Where Schizotreta walkeri and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Schizotreta walkeri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 content1

Picture of Schizotreta walkeri

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Schizotreta walkeri 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 itSchizotreta through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mergl 2006