Zonidiscus grayi
No picture of Zonidiscus grayi 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 Zonidiscus grayi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZonidiscusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At least 400 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 449.2 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
3 occurrences of Zonidiscus grayi on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- South Threave Formation · Drummock Group2
- Mill Formation · Whitehouse Group1
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The named rock units Zonidiscus grayi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Zonidiscus grayi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Zonidiscus grayi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Cataschisma convexa2 sites
- Lophospira trispiralis2 sites
- Pseudosphaerexochus octolobatus2 sites
- Rhabdostropha primitiva2 sites
- Spiroecus girvanensis2 sites
- Actinodiscus wrighti1 site
- Anulocrinus1 site
- Arjamannia thraivensis1 site
- Aulechinus1 site
- Boucotspira ordovicus1 site
- Bucania playfairi1 site
- Bucaniopsis forbesi1 site
- Bucanopsis nicoli1 site
- Carcassonnella multilineata1 site
- Cheirocrinus constrictus1 site
- Clisospira reticulata1 site
- Cnemidactis girvanensis1 site
- Cothurnocystis elizae1 site
- Cymbularia drummuckensis1 site
- Cyrtolites thraivensis1 site
- Dendrocrinus1 site
- Dendrocystoides1 site
- Drepanaster grayae1 site
- Ectinechinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Zonidiscus grayi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 Zonidiscus grayi 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 Zonidiscus grayi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zonidiscus grayi was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itZonidiscus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reed 1921)