Temnodiscus

Temnodiscus

Mehmershausen · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TemnodiscinaePBDB
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 least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 464.3 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 17 of 30 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 9 of 30 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 4 of 30 occurrencesDevonian471–468 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences468–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences458–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 5 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–439 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences405–402 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–397 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464.3 Mya419.62 Mya471 Mya392 Mya

30 occurrences of Temnodiscus 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

30 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.

Found in

21 formations

McIvor — 37.05°S, 144.83°EMcIvor — 34.08°S, 151.02°EVenstøp — 59.89°N, 10.69°EMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 49.97°N, 14.07°EObukhovo — 59.77°N, 30.33°EBurgsvik Beds — 57.04°N, 18.28°EUpper Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EKraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°EMaradana Shale — 33.20°S, 148.68°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EPentamerus Sandstone — 52.00°N, 3.00°WKangaroo Creek — 41.37°N, 122.69°WMiddle Elton — 52.00°N, 4.00°WOnny Shale — 52.00°N, 4.00°WNicolet River — 46.00°N, 72.00°WHolen — 60.55°N, 14.35°EKielno Variegated Limestone — 54.72°N, 20.52°EViivikonna — 59.40°N, 27.35°EMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WClays Ferry — 39.09°N, 84.50°WSlite — 57.74°N, 18.49°EJôhvi — 59.37°N, 24.28°E

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The named rock units Temnodiscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Temnodiscus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Temnodiscus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

433 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Temnodiscus, 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

16 references

Each of the 30 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Temnodiscus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Mehmershausen
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Temnodiscus 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 itTemnodiscinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koken 1896)