Discinocaris

No picture of Discinocaris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Discinocaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiscinocarididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phyllocarida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Phyllocarida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Phyllocarida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 9.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 4 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 4 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 4 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449.6 Mya440.5 Mya458.1 Mya418.9 Mya

4 occurrences of Discinocaris on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

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

Normanskill — 42.65°N, 73.76°WSkelgill — 54.32°N, 2.75°WZelkovice — 50.08°N, 14.47°E

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The named rock units Discinocaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discinocaris and its relatives

Silurian

Where Discinocaris and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Discinocaris, 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 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. 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 content0

No picture of Discinocaris was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Discinocaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Discinocaris 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 itDiscinocarididae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.