Discogypsina

Discogypsina

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 6.13 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.72 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.4–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–5.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20.45 Mya6.13 Mya23.5 Mya5.2 Mya

4 occurrences of Discogypsina on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

4 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

Subis Limestone — 3.77°N, 113.78°E

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The named rock units Discogypsina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discogypsina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Discogypsina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Discogypsina, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Discogypsina

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Discogypsina 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 itAcervulinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Silvestri 1937