Diaphus apalus
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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 1.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
10 occurrences of Diaphus apalus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Nancy Point Formation · Bocas del Toro Group3
- Chagres Sandstone Formation3
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
- Gatun Formation1
- Cubagua Formation1
- Chagres Formation1
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The named rock units Diaphus apalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diaphus apalus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Diaphus apalus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Diaphus aequalis4 sites
- Lobianchia johnfitchi4 sites
- Myctophum affine4 sites
- Myctophum degraciai4 sites
- Diaphus barrigonensis3 sites
- Diaphus depressifrons3 sites
- Diaphus multiserratus3 sites
- Diaphus pedemontanus3 sites
- Diaphus rodriguezi3 sites
- Lepidophanes inflectus3 sites
- Benthosema pluridens2 sites
- Coelorinchus2 sites
- Diaphus dumerilii2 sites
- Diaphus hataii2 sites
- Myctophum arcanum2 sites
- Myctophum jacksoni2 sites
- Argentina1 site
- Bathygadus1 site
- Bolinichthys1 site
- Bregmaceros1 site
- Carangidae1 site
- Caranx1 site
- Carapus1 site
- Centrophorus granulosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Diaphus apalus, 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- Otoliths of the Myctophidae from the Neogene of tropical America8
- Fossil deep-sea snapper (Actinopterygii: Lutjanidae) from the Last Interoceanic Central American Deep Strait (LICADS)1
- Remarkable dominance of myctophid otoliths in Upper Miocene Chagres Formation, Caribbean Panama1
Each of the 10 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 apalus 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 Diaphus apalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diaphus apalus 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 itDiaphus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schwarzhans and Aguilera 2013