Discoaster variabilis

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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 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 22 of 1494 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 1494 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 1494 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 1494 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1046 of 1494 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 314 of 1494 occurrencesPleistocene — about 101 of 1494 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 5 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 6 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 9 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 15 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 68 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 103 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 152 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 281 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 324 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 355 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 166 occurrences89.8 Mya11.7 ka96 Mya0 Mya

1,494 occurrences of Discoaster variabilis 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

1,494 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

4 formations

Map — 9.55°N, 138.15°EMap — 9.56°N, 138.20°EBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°EFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°W

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The named rock units Discoaster variabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,483 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discoaster variabilis and its relatives

Miocene

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

Found in the same rock

132 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,481 sites for Discoaster variabilis, 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

73 references

Each of the 1,494 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. 61 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 variabilis 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 variabilis, 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.

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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. Martini and Bramlette 1963