Discorbidae

Discorbidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 184 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 2086 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 2086 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 18 of 2086 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 18 of 2086 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 185 of 2086 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 79 of 2086 occurrencesEocene — about 154 of 2086 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 83 of 2086 occurrencesMiocene — about 250 of 2086 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 154 of 2086 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1101 of 2086 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences190–184 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–157 Mya — about 5 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 7 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 7 occurrences144–138 Mya — about 6 occurrences138–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–125 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences125–118 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences118–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–105 Mya — about 3 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 13 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 24 occurrences92–85 Mya — about 39 occurrences85–79 Mya — about 72 occurrences79–72 Mya — about 19 occurrences72–66 Mya — about 25 occurrences66–59 Mya — about 32 occurrences59–52 Mya — about 61 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 34 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 52 occurrences39–33 Mya — about 58 occurrences33–26 Mya — about 39 occurrences26–20 Mya — about 94 occurrences20–13 Mya — about 88 occurrences13–6.6 Mya — about 86 occurrences6.6–0 Mya — about 1316 occurrences184.2 Mya11.7 ka197 Mya0 Mya

2,086 occurrences of Discorbidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

2,086 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

106 formations

Canepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WYegua — 30.28°N, 96.93°WChungliao — 24.03°N, 120.65°EAmeki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.55°N, 7.63°EAmeki — 5.58°N, 7.58°EAmeki — 5.57°N, 7.52°EAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°EBrasso — 10.59°N, 61.13°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.89°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WWuchihshan — 24.03°N, 120.65°EBear Bluff — 33.90°N, 78.84°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.24°S, 176.24°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.25°EKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WAbu Roash — 30.06°N, 31.08°ERoca — 38.17°S, 68.42°WRoca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.98°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.92°EBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WDenton — 32.83°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.15°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.35°N, 97.18°WEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WRhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°E

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The named rock units Discorbidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 82 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,799 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discorbidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Discorbidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,414 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,430 sites for Discorbidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

234 references

Each of the 2,086 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. 222 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 Discorbidae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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. Ehrenberg 1838