Discosparsa

Discosparsa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiastoporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesEocene160–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–139 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence132.6 Mya41.03 Mya160 Mya35 Mya

5 occurrences of Discosparsa on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

5 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

Harudi — 23.40°N, 68.80°EHarudi — 23.52°N, 68.70°EXiaqiongco — 31.75°N, 89.50°E

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The named rock units Discosparsa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discosparsa and its relatives

Eocene

Where Discosparsa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

46 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Discosparsa, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 Discosparsa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Discosparsa 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.

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What may have been alongside itDiastoporidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1852