Discinisca fallens

Discinisca fallens

Andrea Vargas · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
DisciniscaPBDB
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesOligocene — about 11 of 13 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.5–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27.3 Mya11.63 Mya34.4 Mya6.7 Mya

13 occurrences of Discinisca fallens on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

13 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

3 formations

Grafenberg — 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°EBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°EDeist — 51.19°N, 4.46°E

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The named rock units Discinisca fallens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discinisca fallens and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Discinisca fallens and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

104 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Discinisca fallens, 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

4 references

Each of the 13 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 Discinisca fallens

Source
GBIF
Credit
Andrea Vargas
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Discinisca fallens 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 itDiscinisca through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wood 1874)