Dianops

Dianops is a genus of phacopid trilobite in the order Phacopida, that existed during the upper Devonian in what is now Germany. It was described by Richter and Richter in 1923, and the type species is Dianops limbatus, which was originally described under the genus Phacops by Richter in 1848. The type locality was in Saalfeld, Thuringia.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhacopidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
blindPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 22 of 22 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 22 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences371–371 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences370–370 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 1 occurrence365–364 Mya — about 1 occurrence364–364 Mya — about 1 occurrence364–363 Mya — about 1 occurrence363–363 Mya — about 1 occurrence363–362 Mya — about 1 occurrence362–362 Mya — about 1 occurrence362–361 Mya — about 1 occurrence361–361 Mya — about 1 occurrence361–360 Mya — about 1 occurrence360–360 Mya — about 1 occurrence360–359 Mya — about 1 occurrence359–359 Mya — about 1 occurrence372.6 Mya358.4 Mya

22 occurrences of Dianops on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

22 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

9 formations

Wocklum Limestone — 51.40°N, 7.83°EMarhouma — 29.92°N, 1.88°WErfoud — 31.43°N, 4.22°WErfoud — 31.24°N, 3.82°WDasberger — 51.39°N, 7.96°EDasberger — 51.39°N, 7.84°EDaihua — 25.73°N, 106.37°EWocklumeria Limestone — 50.55°N, 16.55°EThalenberg — 50.71°N, 8.18°EHemberg — 51.37°N, 7.60°EGleitsch — 50.65°N, 11.35°E

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The named rock units Dianops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dianops and its relatives

Devonian

Where Dianops and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

90 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Dianops, 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

11 references

Each of the 22 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. 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Dianops 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPhacopidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Richter 1923