Discoidella

No picture of Discoidella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Discoidella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolycopidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Myodocopida
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Myodocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Myodocopida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 194 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.7 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 25 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 12 of 25 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 25 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 25 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 25 occurrences323–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–308 Mya — about 2 occurrences308–300 Mya — about 2 occurrences300–292 Mya — about 1 occurrence292–284 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–253 Mya — about 5 occurrences253–245 Mya — about 5 occurrences245–237 Mya — about 2 occurrences237–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence307.4 Mya113.2 Mya323 Mya89 Mya

25 occurrences of Discoidella on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

25 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

11 formations

Dalong — 22.27°N, 107.69°EChangxing — 25.73°N, 117.74°EAli Bashi — 38.73°N, 45.58°ERyozensan Limestone — 35.26°N, 136.36°ESama — 43.30°N, 5.68°WLabatlan Sandstone — 47.75°N, 18.50°EVäszoly — 46.88°N, 17.60°EBuchenstein — 46.88°N, 17.60°EIatan — 39.33°N, 94.91°WElmdale — 38.37°N, 96.62°WNagyvisnyo — 48.15°N, 20.44°E

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The named rock units Discoidella 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.

Discoidella and its relatives

Permian

Where Discoidella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

387 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Discoidella, 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

11 references

Each of the 25 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

Media content0

No picture of Discoidella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Discoidella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.