Cestodiscus

Cestodiscus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CoscinodiscaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 75 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 75 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 72 of 75 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 75 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 75 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 10 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 10 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 9 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.2–8.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.1–6.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.9–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23.04 Mya2.58 Mya34.6 Mya0 Mya

75 occurrences of Cestodiscus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

75 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.

Cestodiscus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cestodiscus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

62 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Cestodiscus, 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

7 references

Each of the 75 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cestodiscus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cestodiscus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCoscinodiscaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Greville 1865