Discinisca porvenir

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- 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 most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Discinisca porvenir 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Discinisca porvenir has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Discinisca porvenir and its relatives
MioceneWhere Discinisca porvenir and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Prosqualodon australis2 sites
- Ameghinomya argentina1 site
- Amplaster alatus1 site
- Anseriformes1 site
- Aondelphis talen1 site
- Argyrocetus patagonicus1 site
- Arthrodytes1 site
- Austrocallista iheringi1 site
- Brisaster iheringi1 site
- Buccinanops halleri1 site
- Callianassa1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Cominella annae1 site
- Crassatellidae1 site
- Crassostrea hatcheri1 site
- Cyrtopleura lanceolata1 site
- Discinisca messii1 site
- Discoporella1 site
- Echinorhinus pozzii1 site
- Eretiscus tonnii1 site
- Eurhinodelphinidae1 site
- Fissidentalium1 site
- Glossaulax secundum1 site
- Glycymeris camaronesia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Discinisca porvenir, 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
2 references- First discinid brachiopods (Brachiopoda: Lingulida) from the Cenozoic of Patagonia (Gaiman Formation, Lower Miocene, Argentina)3
- The fossil invertebrate marine fauna of the Gaiman Formation (Lower Miocene) at Bryn Gwyn (Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina)1
Each of the 4 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 Discinisca porvenir
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Discinisca porvenir 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDiscinisca through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pérez et al. 2023