Discoaster surculus

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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 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 290 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 1271 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 1271 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 1271 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 1271 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 568 of 1271 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 632 of 1271 occurrencesPleistocene — about 67 of 1271 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 9 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 10 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 24 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 98 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 229 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 323 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 523 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 28 occurrences48.07 Mya290 ka67 Mya0 Mya

1,271 occurrences of Discoaster surculus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

1,271 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

Mikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°E

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The named rock units Discoaster surculus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,270 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discoaster surculus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Discoaster surculus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

98 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,269 sites for Discoaster surculus, and this reads 240 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

66 references

Each of the 1,271 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. 54 further references are not listed. 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

3D model

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

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

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 PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martini and Bramlette 1963