Discosiphonella

Discosiphonella

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GuadalupiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 95 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 105 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 83 of 105 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 105 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 105 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 19 of 105 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 105 occurrences317–314 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences314–310 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences310–306 Mya — about 1 occurrence306–302 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences302–298 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences298–294 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences294–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–286 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences286–282 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences278–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–270 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 5 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 32 occurrences262–258 Mya — about 27 occurrences258–254 Mya — about 3 occurrences254–250 Mya — about 13 occurrences239–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–227 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences227–223 Mya — about 3 occurrences223–219 Mya — about 3 occurrences219–215 Mya — about 3 occurrences215–211 Mya — about 3 occurrences211–207 Mya — about 5 occurrences207–203 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307 Mya211.18 Mya317 Mya199 Mya

105 occurrences of Discosiphonella 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

105 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

23 formations

Capitan Limestone — 32.18°N, 104.35°WCapitan Limestone — 32.29°N, 104.34°WCapitan Limestone — 32.12°N, 104.45°WCapitan — 32.19°N, 104.36°WCapitan — 32.29°N, 104.35°WCapitan — 32.12°N, 104.45°WChangxing — 29.92°N, 106.43°EChangxing — 24.90°N, 105.15°EChangxing — 30.48°N, 109.05°EChangxing — 30.08°N, 108.86°ELyudyanza — 42.90°N, 133.00°ELyudyanza — 42.85°N, 133.04°ELyudyanza — 42.79°N, 132.86°ESaikra Biohermal Complex — 33.45°N, 10.30°ESaikra Biohermal Complex — 33.41°N, 10.23°EDjebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex — 33.41°N, 10.18°EMaokou — 24.88°N, 105.18°EMaokou — 24.02°N, 105.09°EMaokou — 28.00°N, 101.31°EPanormide — 38.13°N, 13.38°EPanormide — 37.90°N, 14.00°EMiddle Shaly Facies — 33.42°N, 10.20°ESkiathos — 38.85°N, 24.50°ELuning — 38.43°N, 118.05°WLuning — 38.43°N, 118.12°WDachstein — 47.45°N, 13.07°EDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°EDjebel Tebaga — 33.41°N, 10.18°EPicos de Europa — 43.21°N, 4.71°WWujiaping — 24.90°N, 105.15°EDemues — 43.31°N, 4.98°WOum el Afia Shale — 33.42°N, 10.18°ELercara — 37.76°N, 13.63°EIchinotani — 36.22°N, 137.53°ESurmaq — 31.04°N, 52.91°EMartin Bridge — 45.37°N, 117.35°WKasimlar — 37.70°N, 31.35°ELas Delicias — 26.35°N, 102.95°W

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The named rock units Discosiphonella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discosiphonella and its relatives

Permian

Where Discosiphonella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

616 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Discosiphonella, 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

29 references

Each of the 105 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. 17 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 Discosiphonella

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Inai 1936