Discorbinella

Discorbinella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiscorbinellidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
Environment
outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 191 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 191 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 191 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 191 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 191 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 35 of 191 occurrencesPleistocene — about 135 of 191 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 13 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 36 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 126 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

191 occurrences of Discorbinella 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

191 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

2 formations

Rhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°EJagüel — 38.84°S, 67.88°W

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The named rock units Discorbinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 189 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discorbinella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Discorbinella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

334 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 187 sites for Discorbinella, 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 191 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Discorbinella

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

No 3D scan of Discorbinella 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 itDiscorbinellidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman and Martin 1935