Schizodus King 1844 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Schizodidae

Alternative spelling: Axinus (Schizodus)

Synonym: Protoschizodus de Koninck 1885

Full reference: W. King. 1844. On a new genus of Paleozoic shells. Annual Magazine of Natural History (Series 1) 14:313-317

Parent taxon: Schizodidae according to N. D. Newell and D.W. Boyd 1975

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, King 1850, McAlester 1962, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Eoastartinae, Heteroschizodus, Schizodinae, Silurozodus, Sinodorinae

Subtaxa: Schizodus acuminatus Schizodus affinis Schizodus alpinus Schizodus altus Schizodus amplus Schizodus antiquus Schizodus australis Schizodus bifidus Schizodus canalis Schizodus cardissa Schizodus chesterensis Schizodus compressus Schizodus compressus Schizodus crespinae Schizodus cuneatus Schizodus curtiforme Schizodus curtus Schizodus cycloliratus Schizodus deparcus Schizodus depressus Schizodus dianensis Schizodus dubiiformis Schizodus ellioti Schizodus elongatus Schizodus emarginatus Schizodus ferrieri Schizodus fitzroyensis Schizodus globosus Schizodus guizhouensis Schizodus hedongensis Schizodus japonicus Schizodus jiangbianensis Schizodus jiangheensis Schizodus jiangxiensis Schizodus jiaozishanensis Schizodus kennedyensis Schizodus lianyuanensis Schizodus lopingensis Schizodus magnus Schizodus meekanus Schizodus minutus Schizodus negrii Schizodus obscurus Schizodus occidentalis Schizodus ovatus Schizodus parvulus Schizodus pinguis Schizodus pintoensis Schizodus qinglongensis Schizodus rhynchophorus Schizodus rossicus Schizodus rotundatus Schizodus sandimanensis Schizodus schlotheimi Schizodus securus Schizodus sinensis Schizodus subcircularis Schizodus subobscurus Schizodus subovatus Schizodus subquadratus Schizodus supaiensis Schizodus texanus Schizodus tibeticus Schizodus trigonalis Schizodus truncatus Schizodus tschernjaki Schizodus ulrichi Schizodus wheeleri Schizodus wyomingensis Schizodus xiangtanensis

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection)

• Triassic to Jurassic of United States (1: Alaska)

• Triassic of Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (5)

• Leonard of United States (3: Montana, Utah, Wyoming)

• Permian of Argentina (1), Australia (23), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Nunavut), Chile (2), China (49), Germany (6), Greece (2), Greenland (5), India (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (12), Japan (1), Laos (1), Latvia (4), Lithuania (9), Madagascar (1), Mexico (6), Nepal (2), New Zealand (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (22), Peru (1), Poland (18), the Russian Federation (42), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (55), United States (140: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (2)

• Virgilian of United States (37: Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas)

• Desmoinesian of United States (13: Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma)

• Atokan of United States (1: Ohio)

• Westphalian of Australia (1), Spain (1)

• Pennsylvanian of Argentina (1), Australia (4), Belize (1), Mexico (2), United States (1: California)

• Namurian of Argentina (1), Australia (5)

• Chesterian of United States (17: Arizona, Iowa, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Wyoming)

• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1)

• Carboniferous of Argentina (7), Australia (3), Brazil (1), Chile (1), Ireland (1), Mexico (2), Peru (2), the United Kingdom (9), United States (73: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, New mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming)

• Mississippian of United States (3: Alaska, California)

• Devonian of Australia (4), Canada (1: Quebec), China (4), Germany (1), United States (8: Alaska, Maryland, New York, Ohio)

• Silurian of United States (1: Alaska)

Total: 633 collections including 752 occurrences

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