Charniodiscus concentricus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CharniodiscusPBDB
- Diet
- osmotroph, suspension feederPBDB, for Charniodiscus
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Charniodiscus
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Charniodiscus
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charniodiscus
Time the record covers
At most 97 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Charniodiscus concentricus on record. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Bradgate Formation · Maplewell Group3
- Contra Fogo Sandstone Formation1
- Yorga Formation1
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The named rock units Charniodiscus concentricus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Aspidella terranovica2 sites
- Arborea arborea1 site
- Archaeonassa1 site
- Arenicolites1 site
- Bergaueria1 site
- Bradgatia linfordensis1 site
- Charnia masoni1 site
- Kimberella quadrata1 site
- Medusinites asteroides1 site
- Palaeophragmodictya reticulata1 site
- Palaeophycus1 site
- Parvancorina minchami1 site
- Pectinifrons abyssalis1 site
- Planolites1 site
- Problematica1 site
- Pseudovendia charnwoodensis1 site
- Rangea schneiderhoehni1 site
- Skolithos1 site
- Tribrachidium heraldicum1 site
- Yorgia waggoneri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Charniodiscus concentricus, 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
5 references- First Ediacaran fauna occurrence in northeastern Brazil (Jaibaras Basin, ?Ediacaran-Cambrian): Preliminary results and regional correlation1
- Patterns of evolution of the Ediacaran soft-bodied biota1
- Ediacaran fossils from the Precambrian (Charnian Supergroup) of Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, England1
- The Ediacaran fossils for Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire1
- Pre-Cambrian fossils from Charnwood Forest1
Each of the 5 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. 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 Charniodiscus concentricus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Verisimilus at English Wikipedia
- Licence
- CC BY 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Charniodiscus concentricus 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 itCharniodiscus through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ford 1958