Discoides subuculus

Stratton, Geoff · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiscoidesPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Holectypoida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Holectypoida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Holectypoida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Discoides subuculus 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 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Discoides subuculus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Discoides subuculus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Discoides subuculus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Turrilites2 sites
- Ammonites mayorianus1 site
- Anisoceras1 site
- Anisoceras armatus1 site
- Anisoceras pseudoelegans1 site
- Anisoceras saussureanus1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arca obesa1 site
- Arca valdensis1 site
- Arctica1 site
- Avellana1 site
- Callihoplites auritus1 site
- Caloxanthus formosus1 site
- Calyptraea1 site
- Cardiotaxis1 site
- Cardita1 site
- Catopygus1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Codiopsis doma1 site
- Coenholectypus larteti1 site
- Cottaldia1 site
- Crepidula1 site
- Crocodylomorpha1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Discoides subuculus, 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
3 references- Une carapace de crabe préservée dans le moule interne d'un gastéropode du Cénomanien de Basse-Normandie (France)1
- The middle Cenomanian basal series of Planinica, Western Serbia1
- Jura Vaudois et Neuchatelois1
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. 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 Discoides subuculus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stratton, Geoff
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Discoides subuculus 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 itDiscoides through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leske 1778)