Discoporella

Discoporella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CupuladriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cupuladriidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cupuladriidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cupuladriidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 87 occurrencesMiocene — about 39 of 87 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 33 of 87 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 15 of 87 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences20.45 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

87 occurrences of Discoporella on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

87 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

18 formations

Cayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.90°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.55°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBrasso Clay — 10.48°N, 61.15°WRed Bay — 30.59°N, 85.94°WYellow River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WBerchem — 51.29°N, 4.27°EKhari Nadi — 23.40°N, 68.80°EChaasra — 23.37°N, 68.82°EPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WGaiman — 43.36°S, 65.45°W

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The named rock units Discoporella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discoporella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Discoporella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,974 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Discoporella, 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

17 references

Each of the 87 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. 5 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 Discoporella

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

No 3D scan of Discoporella 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 itCupuladriidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1852