Diaphus aequalis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiaphusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 19 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene7.3–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.8–5.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–5.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.2–5.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.0–4.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–3.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.2–1.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.333 Mya3.6 Mya7.7 Mya1.3 Mya

19 occurrences of Diaphus aequalis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

19 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

Escudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.11°N, 81.57°WShinzato — 26.14°N, 127.74°EShinzato — 26.36°N, 127.98°ECayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCubagua — 10.83°N, 64.20°WCubagua — 10.59°N, 64.24°WGurabo — 19.37°N, 70.76°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMao — 19.54°N, 71.19°WChagres Sandstone — 9.28°N, 80.05°W

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The named rock units Diaphus aequalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Diaphus aequalis and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Diaphus aequalis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

144 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Diaphus aequalis, 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

3 references

Each of the 19 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 Diaphus aequalis 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 Diaphus aequalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Diaphus aequalis 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 itDiaphus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013