Discoithina distincta
No picture of Discoithina distincta was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Discoithina distincta firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Discoithina distincta 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Discoithina distincta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Discoithina distincta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Discoithina distincta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Alopias1 site
- Basilosaurus isis1 site
- Blackites1 site
- Brachaelurus1 site
- Carcharhinus frequens1 site
- Carcharias1 site
- Centrophorus1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Chiasmolithus grandis1 site
- Chiasmolithus oamaruensis1 site
- Coccolithus1 site
- Coccolithus pelagicus1 site
- Cyclococcolithus formosus1 site
- Dasyatis1 site
- Discoaster1 site
- Dorudon atrox1 site
- Dugongidae1 site
- Eotheroides1 site
- Galeocerdo1 site
- Gymnura1 site
- Helicosphaera1 site
- Hemigaleidae1 site
- Hemipristis1 site
- Heptranchias1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Discoithina distincta, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Discoithina distincta was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Discoithina distincta firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Discoithina distincta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.