Groomodiscus calcifer
No picture of Groomodiscus calcifer was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Groomodiscus calcifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GroomodiscusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At most 9.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Groomodiscus calcifer 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
1 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
1 formation
- Tribes Hill Formation · Beekmantown Group1
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The named rock units Groomodiscus calcifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Groomodiscus calcifer and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Groomodiscus calcifer and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Anisotechnophorus nuculitiformis1 site
- Ceratopea obtusa1 site
- Clarkoceras clelandi1 site
- Cyrtoceras1 site
- Eobucania subovatus1 site
- Gasconadia floridensis1 site
- Gasconadia mohawkensis1 site
- Isoteloides canalis1 site
- Ophileta discus1 site
- Sinuopea parva1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Groomodiscus calcifer, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Groomodiscus calcifer was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Groomodiscus calcifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Groomodiscus calcifer 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.
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What may have been alongside itGroomodiscus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cleland 1900)