Discocyclina

Discocyclina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiscocyclinidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 84 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 342 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 342 occurrencesPaleocene — about 112 of 342 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 226 of 342 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 342 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 342 occurrencesMiocene108–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 19 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 93 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 39 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 39 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 22 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 14 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 17 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 46 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 45 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–9.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100.5 Mya15.98 Mya108 Mya10 Mya

342 occurrences of Discocyclina on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

342 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

58 formations

Marne di Priabona — 45.43°N, 11.55°EMarne di Priabona — 45.52°N, 11.54°ESylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°ESinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ESinjar — 35.54°N, 45.30°EPrang — 25.18°N, 92.38°EPrang — 25.18°N, 91.77°EDobranberg Formation — 46.83°N, 14.53°ELut platform — 32.72°N, 59.24°ELut platform — 32.48°N, 59.57°ELut platform — 32.71°N, 59.29°ETalara — 4.58°S, 81.27°WTalara — 4.74°S, 81.30°WTalara — 4.52°S, 81.30°WLakadong Limestone — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong Limestone — 25.26°N, 91.71°EUlukışla — 37.62°N, 35.00°ETossa / Igualada — 41.55°N, 1.57°EZelten — 29.28°N, 20.75°EFulra Limestone — 23.83°N, 68.77°EFulra Limestone — 23.51°N, 68.63°EChungliao — 24.03°N, 120.65°ETrstelj — 45.70°N, 13.90°EBarra Honda — 9.55°N, 84.13°WBarra Honda — 8.40°N, 83.13°WZongpu — 28.29°N, 88.59°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.66°EKravarikovci — 48.73°N, 17.64°EKravarikovci — 49.11°N, 18.44°ELubina — 48.79°N, 17.69°EHricocske Podhradie — 49.22°N, 18.46°EHricocske Podhradie — 49.22°N, 18.70°EBathurst — 33.48°S, 26.93°ECane River — 31.76°N, 93.09°WCane River — 31.88°N, 93.37°WVic Marls — 41.95°N, 2.22°ESanto Spirito — 42.17°N, 14.10°EZhepure Shan — 28.65°N, 87.16°E

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The named rock units Discocyclina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 83 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discocyclina and its relatives

Eocene

Where Discocyclina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

762 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 246 sites for Discocyclina, 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

67 references

Each of the 342 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. 55 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

Picture of Discocyclina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDiscocyclinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.