Porodiscus

No picture of Porodiscus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Porodiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpongodiscidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 20 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 20 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 16 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka87 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Porodiscus 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

20 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

1 formation

Kirsanovskaya — 52.55°N, 42.57°E

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The named rock units Porodiscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Porodiscus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Porodiscus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

106 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Porodiscus, 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

5 references

Each of the 20 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 content1

CT scan

Licence
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Specimen
Porodiscus sp. · l-rcw:microfossil:Rad 08

No picture of Porodiscus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Porodiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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. Haeckel 1881