Alaskadiscus planissimus

No picture of Alaskadiscus planissimus 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 Alaskadiscus planissimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlaskodiscusPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontoidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontoidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At most 1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.5 Mya and 449.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Alaskadiscus planissimus 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

1 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

Subica — 48.58°N, 26.82°E

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The named rock units Alaskadiscus planissimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Alaskadiscus planissimus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Alaskadiscus planissimus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Alaskadiscus planissimus, 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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

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No picture of Alaskadiscus planissimus 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 Alaskadiscus planissimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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. (d'Eichwald 1860)