Discotrypa
No picture of Discotrypa was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Discotrypa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmplexoporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 7.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
5 occurrences of Discotrypa on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Discotrypa 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.
Discotrypa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Discotrypa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
155 taxa- Arthropoma2 sites
- Atactoporella2 sites
- Cornulites2 sites
- Corynotrypa2 sites
- Crepipora2 sites
- Dekayia2 sites
- Hallopora2 sites
- Heterotrypa2 sites
- Homotrypa2 sites
- Lingula2 sites
- Peronopora2 sites
- Plectorthis2 sites
- Stomatopora2 sites
- <Conulariid>1 site
- Achatella1 site
- Acidolites1 site
- Allonychia1 site
- Ambonychia1 site
- Amplexopora1 site
- Anomalocrinus1 site
- Anoptambonites1 site
- Arabellites1 site
- Atactopora1 site
- Augustoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Discotrypa, 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
4 references- Upper Ordovician bryozoans of the Pin Formation (Spiti Valley, Northern India)2
- Ordovician island biotas: New South Wales record and global implications1
- Cambrian to Cretaceous changes in hardground communities1
- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region1
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
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No picture of Discotrypa was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Discotrypa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Discotrypa 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAmplexoporidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.