Glomodiscus
No picture of Glomodiscus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Glomodiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaediscidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 339.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Glomodiscus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
7 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Lucan Formation · Fingal Group6
- Llanarmon Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Glomodiscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Glomodiscus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Glomodiscus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Tetrataxis6 sites
- Archaediscus5 sites
- Brunsia5 sites
- Eoparastaffella simplex5 sites
- Koninckopora5 sites
- Uralodiscus5 sites
- Valvulinella5 sites
- Eotextularia4 sites
- Biorbis3 sites
- Koninckopora inflata3 sites
- Pseudoammodiscus3 sites
- Pseudolituotuba3 sites
- Endothyranopsis2 sites
- Eostaffella2 sites
- Palaeospiroplectammina2 sites
- Planoarchaediscus2 sites
- Athyris1 site
- Axophyllum1 site
- Dorlodotia1 site
- Eoparastaffella1 site
- Globoendothyra1 site
- Globospiroplectammina sp.1 site
- Klubonibelia1 site
- Koskinotextularia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Glomodiscus, 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
2 references- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) boreholes from west county Meath, Ireland6
- Discovery of Arundian and Holkerian faunas from a Dinantian platform succession in North Wales1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Glomodiscus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Glomodiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glomodiscus 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 itArchaediscidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.