Archaediscus

Archaediscus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArchaediscinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 153 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 125 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 122 of 125 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 125 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 125 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 125 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 125 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 125 occurrences386–380 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences380–373 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences373–367 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences367–361 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences361–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–342 Mya — about 28 occurrences342–336 Mya — about 51 occurrences336–329 Mya — about 23 occurrences329–323 Mya — about 9 occurrences323–317 Mya — about 11 occurrences317–311 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences242–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence210–204 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences358.86 Mya205.7 Mya386 Mya198 Mya

125 occurrences of Archaediscus 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

125 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

32 formations

Lucan — 53.62°N, 6.88°WLucan — 53.63°N, 6.73°WAmsden — 41.81°N, 107.30°WAmsden — 41.83°N, 107.24°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.35°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.39°WAmsden — 42.87°N, 110.79°WDiamond Peak — 39.52°N, 115.60°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.05°N, 8.37°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.10°N, 8.25°WPendleside Limestone — 54.05°N, 2.02°WArdengost — 42.93°N, 0.40°ENaul — 53.62°N, 6.88°WKilnsey — 54.05°N, 2.02°WGlencar Limestone — 54.25°N, 8.15°WDartry Limestone — 54.25°N, 8.15°WBowland Shale — 54.05°N, 2.02°WSpring Quarry Limestone — 53.13°N, 3.22°WKebir — 31.08°N, 1.60°WRoque Redonde — 43.53°N, 3.20°EWetterstein — 47.70°N, 12.02°EHawes Limestone I — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGayle Shale — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGayle Limestone II — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGayle Limestone Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHardrow Scar Limestone III — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHardrow Scar Limestone IIIa — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHardrow Scar Limestone — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSimonstone Limestone IV — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSimonstone Limestone IVa — 54.30°N, 2.15°W

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The named rock units Archaediscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archaediscus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Archaediscus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

366 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Archaediscus, 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

20 references

Each of the 125 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. 8 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Archaediscus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itArchaediscinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.