Discinisca

Discinisca is a genus of brachiopods with fossils dating back from the Early Devonian to the Pliocene of Africa, Europe, North America, and New Zealand.

Discinisca

British Museum · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiscinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lingulida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lingulida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lingulida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 387 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 129 ka.

Devonian — about 1 of 127 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 127 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 127 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 127 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 127 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 127 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 23 of 127 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 127 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 127 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 127 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 18 of 127 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 127 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 127 occurrencesOligocene — about 13 of 127 occurrencesMiocene — about 37 of 127 occurrencesPliocene — about 12 of 127 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 127 occurrences419–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences405–391 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences391–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–237 Mya — about 5 occurrences237–223 Mya — about 1 occurrence209–195 Mya — about 4 occurrences195–181 Mya — about 16 occurrences181–168 Mya — about 4 occurrences154–140 Mya — about 2 occurrences140–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–84 Mya — about 15 occurrences84–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–42 Mya — about 6 occurrences42–28 Mya — about 7 occurrences28–14 Mya — about 25 occurrences14–0 Mya — about 35 occurrences387.95 Mya774 ka419 Mya0 Mya

127 occurrences of Discinisca on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

127 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

42 formations

Mancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 36.04°N, 111.04°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.38°WChoptank — 38.52°N, 76.51°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.40°N, 0.50°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.28°N, 104.72°WGrafenberg — 51.34°N, 6.68°EGrafenberg — 51.26°N, 6.95°EGrafenberg — 51.42°N, 6.58°EGrafenberg — 51.22°N, 6.62°EGrafenberg — 51.44°N, 6.55°EGaiman — 43.71°S, 65.35°WGaiman — 42.33°S, 65.40°WGaiman — 43.30°S, 65.42°WGaiman — 42.81°S, 64.89°WGaiman — 43.36°S, 65.45°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 34.37°N, 118.79°WVaqueros — 35.27°N, 120.60°WVaqueros — 35.24°N, 120.09°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 37.21°N, 76.69°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WKirkwood — 39.36°N, 74.42°WKirkwood — 39.43°N, 75.23°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WPisco — 15.61°S, 74.63°WPancho Rico — 36.24°N, 121.29°WPancho Rico — 36.25°N, 121.29°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 120.56°WBlue Lias — 50.00°N, 2.00°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WBelemnite Marls — 50.73°N, 2.87°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 50.67°N, 1.57°WSan Margarita — 37.05°N, 122.07°WSandorhegy Limestone — 47.00°N, 17.90°EFelsõörs — 46.89°N, 17.63°ETe Whanga Limestone — 43.82°S, 176.50°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WMoenkopi — 37.13°N, 113.76°WEmpire — 43.43°N, 124.23°W

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The named rock units Discinisca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discinisca and its relatives

Miocene

Where Discinisca and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,094 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 118 sites for Discinisca, 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

56 references

Each of the 127 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. 44 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 content2

Picture of Discinisca

Credit
British Museum
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Jedermann
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1840