Diaphus befralai
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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 most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Diaphus befralai 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
18 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Diaphus befralai 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.
Diaphus befralai and its relatives
MioceneWhere Diaphus befralai and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
397 taxa- Diaphus cavallonis12 sites
- Hygophum derthonensis12 sites
- Diaphus pedemontanus11 sites
- Diaphus splendidus11 sites
- Lampadena dea10 sites
- Myctophum10 sites
- Benthosema fitchi9 sites
- Diaphus metopoclampoides9 sites
- Hygophum9 sites
- Otolithus labiatus9 sites
- Scopelopsis pliocenicus9 sites
- Lampanyctus latesulcatus8 sites
- Notoscopelus elongatus8 sites
- Grammonus7 sites
- Hoplostethus praemediterraneus7 sites
- Lesueurigobius7 sites
- Notoscopelus resplendens7 sites
- Bathygadus novus6 sites
- Gadiculus argenteus6 sites
- Gadus planatus6 sites
- Lobianchia dofleini6 sites
- Lobianchia gemellari6 sites
- Notoscopelus bolini6 sites
- Polyipnus6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Diaphus befralai, 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
6 references- Tortonian teleost otoliths from northern Italy: taxonomic synthesis and stratigraphic significance8
- Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications3
- Fossil marine fishes and the ʻLago Mareʼ event: Has the Mediterranean ever transformed into a brackish lake?2
- Connectivity controls on the late Miocene eastern Mediterranean fish fauna2
- Fish otoliths from the pre-evaporitic (Early Messinian) sediments of northern Italy: their stratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic significance2
- Tortonian fish otoliths from turbiditic deposits in Northern Italy: Taxonomic and stratigraphic significance1
Each of the 18 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
Media content0
No picture of Diaphus befralai 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 befralai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diaphus befralai 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. Brzobohaty and Nolf 2000