Diaphus biatlanticus
No picture of Diaphus biatlanticus 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 biatlanticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
5 occurrences of Diaphus biatlanticus 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
5 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Diaphus biatlanticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diaphus biatlanticus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Diaphus biatlanticus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Diaphus hataii3 sites
- Diaphus austriacus2 sites
- Diaphus poignantae2 sites
- Hygophum pabloensis2 sites
- Ceratoscopelus priscus1 site
- Coelorhynchus1 site
- Diaphus haereticus1 site
- Diogenichthys1 site
- Hygophum rotundum1 site
- Myctophum murbani1 site
- Notacanthus circulus1 site
- Notoscopelus1 site
- Notoscopelus kuboensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Diaphus biatlanticus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Otoliths of the Myctophidae from the Neogene of tropical America4
- Some Miocene fish otoliths from the Yakuoji Formation, Tsu, Mie Prefecture1
Each of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Diaphus biatlanticus 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 biatlanticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diaphus biatlanticus 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. (Ohe and Araki 1973)