Discocyclina pratti
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiscocyclinaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
21 occurrences of Discocyclina pratti on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
21 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Marne di Priabona Formation18
- Bathurst Formation1
- Tossa / Igualada Formation1
- Vic-Igualada Formation1
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The named rock units Discocyclina pratti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Discocyclina pratti and its relatives
EoceneWhere Discocyclina pratti and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Asterocyclina alticostata18 sites
- Lithothamnion18 sites
- Mesophyllum18 sites
- Nummulites chavannesi18 sites
- Nummulites incrassatus18 sites
- Pellatispira madaraszi18 sites
- Heterostegina14 sites
- Lithoporella melobesioides14 sites
- Sporolithon14 sites
- Assilina alpina11 sites
- Discocyclina dispansa11 sites
- Discocyclina radians11 sites
- Nemkovella strophiolata11 sites
- Nummulites stellatus11 sites
- Spiroclypeus granulosus11 sites
- Acervulina linearis7 sites
- Acervulinoidea7 sites
- Bivalvia7 sites
- Bryozoa7 sites
- Chapmanina7 sites
- Eorupertia7 sites
- Fabiania7 sites
- Miliolida7 sites
- Neogoniolithon7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Discocyclina pratti, 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
4 references- Larger foraminiferal and coralline algal facies in an Upper Eocene storm-influenced, shallow-water carbonate platform (Colli Berici, north-eastern Italy)18
- An inventory of the marine and transitional Middle/Upper Eocene deposits of the Southeastern Pyrenean Foreland Basin (NE Spain)1
- Mesopristis nov. gen. osonensis nov. sp., nuevo género y especie de pez-sierra del Eoceno de Vic, (Catalunya, NE. de España)1
- The Tertiary limestone of the southern coastal regions of Cape Province, South Africa1
Each of the 21 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. 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 Discocyclina pratti
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Discocyclina pratti 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 itDiscocyclina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Michelin 1846