Discodermia galloprovincialis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiscodermiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lithistida
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
3 occurrences of Discodermia galloprovincialis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Discodermia galloprovincialis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Discodermia galloprovincialis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Discodermia galloprovincialis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Aulosoma radiciformis2 sites
- Callopegma acaule2 sites
- Callopegma ficoideum2 sites
- Carterella cylindrica2 sites
- Coscinostoma fragilis2 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri2 sites
- Eustrobilus callosus2 sites
- Heterostinia obliqua2 sites
- Heterostinia phytoniformis2 sites
- Homalodoriana plana2 sites
- Jereica polystoma2 sites
- Pachycothon giganteum2 sites
- Propachastrella primaeva2 sites
- Ragadinia foraminifera2 sites
- Ragadinia rimosa2 sites
- Schrammeniella2 sites
- Schrammeniella scytaliforme2 sites
- Scytalia terebrata2 sites
- Seliscothon2 sites
- Siphonia2 sites
- Stichophyma turbinata2 sites
- Verruculina2 sites
- Acrochordonia bifurcata1 site
- Acrochordonia ramosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Discodermia galloprovincialis, 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- Siliceous sponges from the Upper Cretaceous of Poland, part 1: Tetraxonia2
- Die Schwammfauna der Oberkreide von Neuburg (Donau) [The Upper Cretaceous sponge fauna from Neuburg (Donau)]1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Discodermia galloprovincialis 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 Discodermia galloprovincialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Discodermia galloprovincialis 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 itDiscodermia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Moret 1925)