Discomyorthis musculosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiscomyorthisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Discomyorthis musculosa on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
4 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Cap Bon Ami Formation1
- Grande Greve Formation1
- McColley Canyon Formation1
- Rabbit Hill Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Discomyorthis musculosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Discomyorthis musculosa and its relatives
DevonianWhere Discomyorthis musculosa and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Acrospirifer murchisoni3 sites
- Beachia2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Conularia2 sites
- Cyrtina2 sites
- Dawsonelloides2 sites
- Leptocoelia2 sites
- Leptostrophia2 sites
- Levenea navicula2 sites
- Megakozlowskiella magnapleura2 sites
- Meristella2 sites
- Orthida2 sites
- Plicoplasia2 sites
- Salopina2 sites
- Strophomenida2 sites
- Acrospirifer kleinhampli1 site
- Anchiopsis anchiops1 site
- Archaeogastropoda1 site
- Coelospira1 site
- Coelospira pseudocamilla1 site
- Costispirifer1 site
- Costispirifer arenosus1 site
- Costispirifer arenosus dobbinensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Discomyorthis musculosa, 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- Middle Gaspe Limestone communities on the Forillon Peninsula, Quebec, Canada (Siegenian, Lower Devonian)2
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Rabbit Hill Limestone and Lone Mountain Dolomite of central Nevada1
- Great Basin Lower Devonian Brachiopoda1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Discomyorthis musculosa 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 Discomyorthis musculosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Discomyorthis musculosa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDiscomyorthis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1857)