Discohelix costata

No picture of Discohelix costata 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 Discohelix costata, 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 least 3.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 170.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 168.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic185–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174.7 Mya170.9 Mya184.7 Mya167.7 Mya

2 occurrences of Discohelix costata on record. 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

2 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 the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Discohelix costata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 2 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 content0

No picture of Discohelix costata 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 Discohelix costata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Discohelix costata 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDiscohelix through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wendt 1968