Discoaster quinqueramus

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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 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 290 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 679 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 679 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 679 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 679 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 597 of 679 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 70 of 679 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 679 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 25 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 107 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 256 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 205 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 46 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences56 Mya290 ka67 Mya0 Mya

679 occurrences of Discoaster quinqueramus 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

679 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

Esmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°E

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The named rock units Discoaster quinqueramus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 677 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discoaster quinqueramus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Discoaster quinqueramus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

74 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 678 sites for Discoaster quinqueramus, 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

55 references

Each of the 679 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. 43 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No picture of Discoaster quinqueramus 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 Discoaster quinqueramus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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. Gartner 1969