Dischides

Dischides is a genus of molluscs belonging to the family Gadilidae.

Dischides

Watson, 1879 · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SiphonodentaliinaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Gadilida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Gadilida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gadilida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.7–7.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23.04 Mya11.63 Mya27.8 Mya4.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Dischides on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

2 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

2 formations

Brejning Clay — 56.17°N, 9.75°EEntrerriense — 42.17°S, 64.08°W

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

Found in the same rock

113 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dischides, 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

Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Dischides

Credit
Watson, 1879
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSiphonodentaliinae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jeffreys 1867