Discotoceras
No picture of Discotoceras 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 Discotoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AraxoceratinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Discotoceras on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Discotoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Discotoceras and its relatives
PermianWhere Discotoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Anthozoa1 site
- Araxathyris1 site
- Araxilevis1 site
- Araxoceras1 site
- Araxoceras abarquense1 site
- Araxoceras iranense1 site
- Araxoceras rotoides1 site
- Araxoceras tectum1 site
- Cyclolobus1 site
- Domatoceras atypicum1 site
- Eoaraxoceras1 site
- Haydenella1 site
- Leptodus1 site
- Liroceratidae1 site
- Lopingoceras1 site
- Nautiloidea1 site
- Neocycloceras1 site
- Orthothetina1 site
- Pentaphyllum antractum1 site
- Pentaphyllum breviseptum1 site
- Pleuronautilus1 site
- Prelissorhynchia dorashamensis1 site
- Prototoceras parallelum1 site
- Prototoceras tropitum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Discotoceras, 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- Uppermost Permian and Permo-Triassic transition beds in Central Iran1
- Upper Permian and Permian-Triassic boundary in north Iran1
Each of the 2 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 Discotoceras 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 Discotoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Discotoceras was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itAraxoceratinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1930