Discotectus

No picture of Discotectus 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 Discotectus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrochinaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Trochidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trochidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Trochidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 11 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 11 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 11 occurrencesLate Cretaceous154–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–82 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149.2 Mya83.6 Mya154 Mya71 Mya

11 occurrences of Discotectus on record, most of them in the Early 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

11 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

6 formations

Hiraiga — 39.93°N, 141.95°EHiraiga — 39.82°N, 141.99°ETanohata — 39.92°N, 141.95°EHajar — 14.30°N, 48.49°EBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°EAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Discotectus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discotectus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Discotectus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

423 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Discotectus, 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

8 references

Each of the 11 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

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No picture of Discotectus 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 Discotectus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTrochinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Favre 1913