Discoaster deflandrei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiscoasterPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
- Life habit
- planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
- Environment
- oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 83 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.
1,561 occurrences of Discoaster deflandrei on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1,561 occurrences- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
- Paleoceneunder 1%
- Eocene9%
- Oligocene35%
- Miocene48%
- Pliocene1%
- Pleistocene6%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Discoaster deflandrei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,551 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Discoaster deflandrei and its relatives
MioceneWhere Discoaster deflandrei and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Coccolithus pelagicus221 sites
- Sphenolithus moriformis179 sites
- Sphenolithus139 sites
- Cyclicargolithus floridanus129 sites
- Coronocyclus127 sites
- Triquetrorhabdulus118 sites
- Reticulofenestra114 sites
- Calcidiscus leptoporus87 sites
- Clausicoccus74 sites
- Reticulofenestra pseudoumbilicus68 sites
- Calcidiscus67 sites
- Umbilicosphaera64 sites
- Hughesius58 sites
- Coccolithus52 sites
- Umbilicosphaera jafari50 sites
- Ilselithina43 sites
- Helicosphaera euphratis42 sites
- Sphenolithus heteromorphus41 sites
- Helicopontosphaera granulata39 sites
- Helicosphaera carteri38 sites
- Pontosphaera35 sites
- Discoaster variabilis20 sites
- Helicosphaera intermedia19 sites
- Syracosphaera19 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 1,558 sites for Discoaster deflandrei, and this reads 240 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
68 references- Site U1334130
- Site U133694
- Site U133585
- Site U150576
- Site U140674
- Site U133270
- Site U150760
- Site U140550
- Site U143849
- Site U133749
- Site U146648
- Site U133345
Each of the 1,561 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. 56 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 content0
No picture of Discoaster deflandrei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Discoaster deflandrei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Discoaster deflandrei 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 itDiscoaster through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bramlette and Riedel 1954