Ammodiscidae

Ammodiscidae is a family of foraminifera in the order Spirillinida. It was described by August Emanuel von Reuss in 1862. Ammodiscidae is the sole member of the monotypic superfamily Ammodiscoidea, which in turn is the sole member of the monotypic suborder Ammodiscina.

Ammodiscidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmmodiscoideaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 538 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 0 Mya.

Cambrian — about 5 of 1476 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 1476 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 1476 occurrencesDevonian — about 11 of 1476 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 272 of 1476 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 252 of 1476 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 107 of 1476 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 188 of 1476 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 138 of 1476 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 34 of 1476 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 27 of 1476 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 30 of 1476 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 113 of 1476 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 82 of 1476 occurrencesPaleocene — about 17 of 1476 occurrencesEocene — about 48 of 1476 occurrencesOligocene — about 32 of 1476 occurrencesMiocene — about 95 of 1476 occurrencesPliocene — about 9 of 1476 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 1476 occurrences648–626 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences626–605 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences605–583 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences583–561 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences561–540 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences540–518 Mya — about 4 occurrences518–497 Mya — about 1 occurrence453–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–410 Mya — about 2 occurrences410–389 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences389–367 Mya — about 4 occurrences367–345 Mya — about 24 occurrences345–324 Mya — about 129 occurrences324–302 Mya — about 98 occurrences302–281 Mya — about 68 occurrences281–259 Mya — about 101 occurrences259–237 Mya — about 398 occurrences237–216 Mya — about 65 occurrences216–194 Mya — about 92 occurrences194–173 Mya — about 24 occurrences173–151 Mya — about 40 occurrences151–130 Mya — about 78 occurrences130–108 Mya — about 38 occurrences108–86 Mya — about 57 occurrences86–65 Mya — about 39 occurrences65–43 Mya — about 47 occurrences43–22 Mya — about 54 occurrences22–0 Mya — about 111 occurrences538.8 Mya11.7 ka648 Mya0 Mya

1,476 occurrences of Ammodiscidae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

1,476 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

197 formations

Second Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WAnshun — 26.34°N, 106.72°EWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WSan Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°EChangxing — 31.10°N, 119.73°EChangxing — 30.49°N, 107.00°EChangxing — 29.71°N, 113.93°EChangxing — 29.49°N, 106.40°ECallytharra — 25.88°S, 115.50°EEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WNekuchan — 63.15°N, 139.24°EGraham — 33.19°N, 98.14°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.61°WGraham — 33.05°N, 98.55°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.22°WGraham — 33.32°N, 98.35°WCattle Creek — 25.00°S, 148.42°EDaye — 26.51°N, 106.87°EDaye — 30.17°N, 109.00°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EPaksa — 73.00°N, 113.00°EMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WAbu Durba — 28.57°N, 33.30°EPolat — 37.98°N, 31.45°EBorden — 36.44°N, 88.06°WKuta — 6.03°S, 144.84°EKaradagtepe — 41.91°N, 33.72°EKhachik — 38.94°N, 45.51°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WGnishik — 38.94°N, 45.51°ESafetdara — 38.76°N, 70.89°EWestbury — 51.22°N, 2.82°W

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The named rock units Ammodiscidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 173 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 522 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ammodiscidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Ammodiscidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,668 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 940 sites for Ammodiscidae, and this reads 240 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

263 references

Each of the 1,476 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. 251 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 Ammodiscidae

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No 3D scan of Ammodiscidae 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

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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. Reuss 1862