Discohelix excavata
No picture of Discohelix excavata 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 Discohelix excavata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiscohelixPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 199.5 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Discohelix excavata on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
15 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Discohelix excavata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Discohelix excavata and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Discohelix excavata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
140 taxa- Amberleya (Eucyclus) alpina8 sites
- Discohelix orbis7 sites
- Neritopsis (Neritopsis) fabianii6 sites
- Sisenna subturrita6 sites
- Emarginula (Emarginula) vadanaei5 sites
- Linguithyris aspasia5 sites
- Anticonulus lateumbilicatus4 sites
- Apringia paolii4 sites
- Dohmella multistriatus4 sites
- Pentagonodiscus reussii4 sites
- Ataphrus folcoi3 sites
- Bakonyithyris apenninica3 sites
- Discohelix acarinata3 sites
- Eucyclomphalus cupido3 sites
- Leptomaria3 sites
- Nannirhynchia gemmellaroi3 sites
- Proconulus3 sites
- Anoptychia2 sites
- Anticonulus2 sites
- Antiptychina rothpletzi2 sites
- Apringia diptycha2 sites
- Austriacopsis (Austriacopsis) austriaca2 sites
- Bakonyithyris avicula2 sites
- Bakonyithyris ovimontana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Discohelix excavata, 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
4 references- Paleoökológia, paleo(bio)geográfia, evolúció és biokronológia bakonyi jura gastropodák tükrében11
- Lower and Middle Jurassic Gastropods from the Bakony Mts. (Hungary). Part 1. Eumophalidae (Archaeogastropoda)2
- Pliensbachian gastropods from Venetian Southern Alps (Italy) and their palaeobiogeographical significance1
- Sui fossili degli strati a Terebratula aspasia della contrada Rocche Rosse presso Galati (prov. di Messina). Cefalopodi (fine) - Gasteropodi1
Each of the 15 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. 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
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No picture of Discohelix excavata 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 Discohelix excavata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Discohelix excavata 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 itDiscohelix through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reuss 1852)