Orthodiscus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VentriculitinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 10 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 10 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110.1 Mya72.2 Mya114.1 Mya65.1 Mya

10 occurrences of Orthodiscus on record, most of them in the Late 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

10 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.

Orthodiscus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Orthodiscus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Orthodiscus, 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

Each of the 10 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Orthodiscus 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 itVentriculitinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schrammen 1924