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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9167906	https://www.gbif.org/species/9167906
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	88791	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=88791

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Brachiopoda : Lingulata : Lingulida : Disciniidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
-	Lophophorata
phylum	Brachiopoda	Cuvier 1805
subphylum	Linguliformea	Williams et al. 1996
class	Lingulata	Gorjansky and Popov 1985
order	Lingulida	Waagen 1885
superfamily	Discinoidea	(Gray 1840)
family	Disciniidae	(Gray 1840)

Scientific Name

Disciniidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Disciniidae	family	belongs to Inarticulata	stated without evidence	Huxley, 1869
Disciniidae	family	belongs to Discinacea	stated without evidence	Martin, 1904
Disciniidae	family	belongs to Discinacea	stated with evidence	Holmer, 1987
Disciniidae	family	belongs to Discinoidea	stated with evidence	Williams et al., 2000
Disciniidae	family	belongs to Discinoidea	stated without evidence	Popov, 2000
Disciniidae	family	belongs to Lingulida	stated without evidence	Holmer et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

9 (9.2%)

First Recorded Appearance

520 - 516 Ma
Cambrian

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Lingulida)

Vision

blind (based on Lingulata)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Lingulida)

Ecospace Comments

BODY SIZE: Based on component genera; 2 of 2 genera share 1 to < 10 length, 2 of 2 share 1 to < 10 width.

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Lingulida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. I. Mitchell. 1977. The Ordovician Brachiopoda from Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone. The Palaeontographical Society Monographs 130(545):1-138

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Acrosaccus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	467 Ma Middle Ordovician	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Discina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	26	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	0 Ma Extant
Discinisca genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	81	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	0 Ma Extant
Discinolepis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	516 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Heliomedusa ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	39	520 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Kosoidea ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	426 Ma Silurian	426 Ma Silurian
Lindstroemella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	323 Ma Carboniferous	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Lingulodiscina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	8	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	260 Ma Permian
Lochkothele ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	419 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Oehlertella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	372 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	318 Ma Carboniferous
Orbiculoidea ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	860	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Pelagodiscus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	7.25 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Roemerella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	272 Ma Permian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1840	Discinidae Gray
1869	Disciniidae Huxley p. 116
1904	Disciniidae Martin p. 402
1963	Disciniidae Wright
1977	Discinidae Mitchell
1982	Discinidae Owen and Harper
1986	Discinidae Holmer
1987	Disciniidae Holmer

Year	Name and Author
1989	Discinidae Holmer
2000	Disciniidae Popov
2000	Disciniidae Williams et al. p. 86
2005	Disciniidae Holmer et al. p. 895
2005	Disciniidae Zhan and Jin
2011	Discinidae Hansen and Holmer
2017	Discinidae Bitner and Müller p. 212

References

Mitchell W. I. (1977) The Ordovician Brachiopoda from Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, The Palaeontographical Society Monographs 130 545, 1-138

Martin G. C. (1904) Brachiopoda, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text, 402-403

Wright A. D. (1963) The fauna of the Portrane Limestone 1. The inarticulate brachiopods, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 8 5, 224-254

Owen A. W., Harper D. A. T. (1982) The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway, 31. The upper Caradoc trilobites and brachiopods from Vestbraten, Ringerike, Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 62, 95-120

Holmer L. E. (1986) Inarticulate brachiopods around the Middle-Upper Ordovician boundary in Västergötland, Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar 108 2, 97-126 doi:10.1080/11035898609452633

Holmer L. E. (1987) Discinacean brachiopods from the Ordovician Kullsberg an Boda limestones of Dalarna, Sweden, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 109 4, 317-326

Holmer L. E. (1989) Middle Ordovician phosphatic inarticulate brachiopods from Västergötland and Dalarna, Sweden, Fossils and Strata 26, 1-172

Popov L. E. (2000) Late Ordovician linguliformean microbrachiopods from north-central Kazakhstan, Alcheringa 24, 257-275

Williams A., Carlson S. J., et al (2000) Part H Brachiopoda (revised): Volumes 2 & 3, Linguliformea, Craniiformea, Rhynchonelliformea (part)., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, 1-919

Holmer L. E., Popov L. E., et al (2005) Lower Ordovician (Tremadocian) lingulate brachiopods from the House and Fillmore Formations, Ibex area, Western Utah, USA, Journal of Paleontology 79 5, 884-906

Zhan R.-B., Jin J. (2005) New data on the Foliomena fauna (Brachiopoda) from the Upper Ordovician of South China, Journal of Paleontology 79 4, 670-686

Hansen J., Holmer L. E. (2011) Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Ordovician brachiopods from northeastern Ny Friesland, Spitsbergen, Zootaxa 3076, 1-122

Bitner M. A., Müller A. (2017) Late Eocene (Priabonian) brachiopod fauna from Dnipropetrovsk, eastern Ukraine, Bulletin of Geosciences 92, 211-231

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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