Diaphus coatesi
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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 1.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 1.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Diaphus coatesi 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene55%
- Pleistocene45%
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
3 formations
- Escudo de Veraguas Formation · Bocas del Toro Group6
- Bastimentos Formation1
- Shinzato Formation1
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The named rock units Diaphus coatesi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diaphus coatesi and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Diaphus coatesi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Diaphus aequalis3 sites
- Diaphus dumerilii2 sites
- Diaphus splendidus2 sites
- Benthosema fibulatum1 site
- Benthosema pterotum1 site
- Ceratoscopelus1 site
- Ceratoscopelus townsendi1 site
- Diaphus dainichiensis1 site
- Diaphus endoi1 site
- Diaphus noboriensis1 site
- Diaphus parri1 site
- Diaphus perspicillatus1 site
- Diaphus problematicus1 site
- Notoscopelus kuboensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Diaphus coatesi, 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 America7
- Lanternfish otoliths (Teleostei, Myctophidae) from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Japan1
Each of the 8 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
Media content0
No picture of Diaphus coatesi 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 coatesi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diaphus coatesi 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