Stenodiscus giganteus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StenodiscusPBDB
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 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–261 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.4 Mya274.4 Mya361 Mya258 Mya

2 occurrences of Stenodiscus giganteus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

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.

Stenodiscus giganteus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Stenodiscus giganteus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Stenodiscus giganteus, 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

2 references

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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Stenodiscus giganteus 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.

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What may have been alongside itStenodiscus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yang 1958