Diaphanodus

No picture of Diaphanodus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Diaphanodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ConodontaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At most 52 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 24 of 24 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 24 occurrences540–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences520–518 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences502–500 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences500–498 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 1 occurrence495–493 Mya — about 1 occurrence493–491 Mya — about 1 occurrence491–489 Mya — about 5 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 6 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 3 occurrences540 Mya486 Mya

24 occurrences of Diaphanodus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

24 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

4 formations

Fengshan — 42.06°N, 126.71°EWindfall — 39.20°N, 116.26°WAlum Shale — 56.35°N, 16.41°EGreen Point — 49.68°N, 57.95°W

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The named rock units Diaphanodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diaphanodus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Diaphanodus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

62 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Diaphanodus, 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

4 references

Each of the 24 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 Diaphanodus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Diaphanodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Diaphanodus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itConodonta through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bagnoli 1987