Discosphaera

Discosphaera

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
RhabdosphaeraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 6 of 119 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 119 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 119 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 119 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 35 of 119 occurrencesPleistocene — about 75 of 119 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–4.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 44 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 62 occurrences59.24 Mya129 ka63 Mya0 Mya

119 occurrences of Discosphaera 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

119 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.

Discosphaera and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Discosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 119 sites for Discosphaera, 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

15 references

Each of the 119 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. 3 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 Discosphaera

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Discosphaera 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itRhabdosphaeraceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1894