Discoaster adamanteus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiscoasterPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 60 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 60 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 22 of 60 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 34 of 60 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 60 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 60 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 6 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 6 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–8.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences8.9–7.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33.9 Mya5 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

60 occurrences of Discoaster adamanteus 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

60 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

1 formation

Map — 9.55°N, 138.15°EMap — 9.56°N, 138.20°E

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The named rock units Discoaster adamanteus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 53 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discoaster adamanteus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Discoaster adamanteus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Discoaster adamanteus, 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

11 references

Each of the 60 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 content0

No picture of Discoaster adamanteus 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 Discoaster adamanteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Discoaster adamanteus 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 itDiscoaster through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bramlette and Wilcoxon 1967