Coscinodiscus radiatus

Coscinodiscus radiatus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 331 occurrencesMiocene — about 50 of 331 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 59 of 331 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 209 of 331 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 12 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 14 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 20 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 27 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 48 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 58 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 104 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

331 occurrences of Coscinodiscus radiatus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

331 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

2 formations

Daineji — 37.37°N, 141.04°EChoptank — 38.44°N, 76.44°W

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The named rock units Coscinodiscus radiatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 329 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coscinodiscus radiatus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Coscinodiscus radiatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

145 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 331 sites for Coscinodiscus radiatus, 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

32 references

Each of the 331 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. 20 further references are not listed. 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 Coscinodiscus radiatus

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

No 3D scan of Coscinodiscus radiatus 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 itCoscinodiscus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1841