Discohelix (Discogonius)
No picture of Discohelix (Discogonius) 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 Discohelix (Discogonius), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiscohelixPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Discohelix (Discogonius) on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
9 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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 Discohelix (Discogonius) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Discohelix (Discogonius) and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Discohelix (Discogonius) and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
188 taxa- Coelostylina liscaviensis9 sites
- Septaliphorioidea paucicostata8 sites
- Cheilotomona pentagonum7 sites
- Diholkorhynchia sinensis7 sites
- Zygopleura arctecostata7 sites
- Arcavicula6 sites
- Balanocrinus6 sites
- Bangtoupocrinus kokeni6 sites
- Bivalvia6 sites
- Cassianella6 sites
- Cassianella simplex6 sites
- Elegantarca subareata6 sites
- Elegantinia6 sites
- Elegantinia elegans6 sites
- Encrinus liliiformis6 sites
- Eophilobryoidella sinoanisica6 sites
- Eucycloscala6 sites
- Eucycloscala binodosa6 sites
- Gastropoda6 sites
- Gervillia angulata6 sites
- Laevidentalium6 sites
- Lepismatina hsui6 sites
- Leptochondria6 sites
- Lopha6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Discohelix (Discogonius), 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- Fossilvergesellschaftungen, Paläoökologie und paläosynökologische Entwicklung im Oberen Anisium (Mittlere Trias) von Qingyan, insbesondere Bangtoupo, Provinz Guizhou, Südwestchina6
- Middle Triassic Gastropoda from Qingyan, Guizhou Province, China: 3 - Euomphalacea and Loxonematacea3
Each of the 9 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 content0
No picture of Discohelix (Discogonius) 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 Discohelix (Discogonius), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Discohelix (Discogonius) 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 itDiscohelix through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Yin and Yochelson 1983)