Discoaster bellus

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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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 1 of 195 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 187 of 195 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 195 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 195 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 13 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 25 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 29 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 29 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 21 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 18 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 18 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23.04 Mya2.58 Mya27.8 Mya0 Mya

195 occurrences of Discoaster bellus 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

195 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.

Discoaster bellus and its relatives

Miocene

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

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 194 sites for Discoaster bellus, 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

33 references

Each of the 195 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. 21 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 content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

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.

Keep going

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. Bukry and Percival 1971