Discors

Discors

Jan Delsing · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
LaevicardiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 34 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 34 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 21 of 34 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 34 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 34 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.5–7.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.6–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

34 occurrences of Discors on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

34 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

16 formations

Gaj — 30.40°N, 72.50°EGaj — 23.25°N, 68.87°EGaj — 25.56°N, 67.90°EGaj — 25.32°N, 67.87°EGaj — 24.87°N, 67.05°ENagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°ELower Menkrawit — 1.03°N, 118.98°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°EFels — 48.50°N, 15.76°ENari — 26.36°N, 67.86°ENari — 26.14°N, 66.79°ESubathu — 30.98°N, 77.02°ERyukyu Limestone — 24.38°N, 124.22°EKlasaman — 0.88°S, 131.25°EKhuiala — 27.86°N, 72.93°EChorgali — 32.69°N, 72.88°EPalembang — 2.92°S, 104.75°EMekran — 25.33°N, 63.33°EJaffna Limestone — 9.82°N, 80.00°EMiddle Fars — 29.00°N, 51.58°EFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°E

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The named rock units Discors has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discors and its relatives

Miocene

Where Discors and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

950 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Discors, 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

19 references

Each of the 34 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Discors

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Anas discors · ISM:ISM-Aves:687557

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.