Viseidiscus
No picture of Viseidiscus 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 Viseidiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ForaminiferaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 335.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Viseidiscus 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
4 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
- Lucan Formation · Fingal Group3
- Bricklieve Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Viseidiscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Viseidiscus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Viseidiscus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Archaediscus4 sites
- Pseudoammodiscus4 sites
- Tetrataxis4 sites
- Valvulinella4 sites
- Koninckopora3 sites
- Pseudoendothyra3 sites
- Asteroarchaediscus2 sites
- Eoparastaffella simplex2 sites
- Globospiroplectammina sp.2 sites
- Pseudolituotuba2 sites
- Amarellina huvelinii1 site
- Aoujgalia1 site
- Aphralysia1 site
- Biorbis1 site
- Brunsia1 site
- Caninophyllum archiaci1 site
- Clisiophyllum1 site
- Cribrostomum1 site
- Endostaffella1 site
- Endothyra1 site
- Endothyranopsis1 site
- Eostaffella1 site
- Eostaffella mosquensis1 site
- Eotextularia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Viseidiscus, 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
2 references- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) boreholes from west county Meath, Ireland3
- Biostratigraphical dating of Upper Visean limestones (NW Ireland) using foraminiferans, calcareous algae and rugose corals1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Viseidiscus 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 Viseidiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Viseidiscus 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 itForaminifera through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.