Alaskodiscus donensis
No picture of Alaskodiscus donensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Alaskodiscus donensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlaskodiscusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontoidea
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontoidea
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Alaskodiscus donensis 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Alaskodiscus donensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Alaskodiscus donensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Alaskodiscus donensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Oriostoma angulatum2 sites
- Rhabdostropha primitiva2 sites
- Sinutropis spiralis2 sites
- Trochonema wartheni2 sites
- Trochonemella churkini2 sites
- Arjamannia thraivensis1 site
- Belodina1 site
- Boucotspira carinifer1 site
- Catenipora1 site
- Cyrtospira1 site
- Daidia sewardensis1 site
- Drepanoistodus suberectus1 site
- Ectomaria pagoda1 site
- Ectomaria prisca1 site
- Eunema1 site
- Eunema quadrisulcata1 site
- Fusispira1 site
- Gyronema1 site
- Helicotoma blodgetti1 site
- Helicotoma robinsoni1 site
- Liospira micula1 site
- Lophospira perangulata1 site
- Lophospira serrulata1 site
- Lytospira subrotunda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Alaskodiscus donensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Alaskodiscus donensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Alaskodiscus donensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alaskodiscus donensis 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 itAlaskodiscus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rohr et al. 2003)