Discophyma dolata

No picture of Discophyma dolata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Discophyma dolata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiscophymaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At most 4.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 159 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic159–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159.5 Mya154.3 Mya

3 occurrences of Discophyma dolata on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

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

2 formations

Calcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°ECouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°E

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The named rock units Discophyma dolata 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.

Discophyma dolata and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Discophyma dolata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

62 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Discophyma dolata, 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

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 Discophyma dolata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Discophyma dolata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Discophyma dolata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

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What may have been alongside itDiscophyma through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oppliger 1907)