Diaphus kokeni
wakusaka · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
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 7.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 12.8 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Diaphus kokeni 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
7 occurrences- Miocene57%
- Pliocene36%
- Pleistocene7%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Diaphus kokeni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diaphus kokeni and its relatives
MioceneWhere Diaphus kokeni and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Diaphus taaningi4 sites
- Brachydeuterus speronatus3 sites
- Carapus acus3 sites
- Cepola rubescens3 sites
- Deltentosteus3 sites
- Dentex3 sites
- Dentex (Cheimerius) gibbosus3 sites
- Gobius multipinnatus3 sites
- Lesueurigobius3 sites
- Lithognathus mormyrus3 sites
- Merluccius merluccius3 sites
- Oxyurichthys sp.3 sites
- Palimphemus anceps3 sites
- Rhynchoconger pantanellii3 sites
- Sparidae3 sites
- Spondyliosoma3 sites
- Trachurus3 sites
- Argyrosomus regia2 sites
- Atherina gidjakensis2 sites
- Boops2 sites
- Bregmaceros albyi2 sites
- Chaenogaleus affinis2 sites
- Chelon2 sites
- Citharus lusitanicus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Diaphus kokeni, 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
4 references- Fish otoliths from the Middle Miocene of Kienberg at Mikulov, Czech REpublic, Vienna Basin: Their paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic significance3
- Diaphus Otoliths from the European Neogene (Myctophidae, Teleostei)2
- Otoliths from the lower Pliocene of the section Prassies (Rethymnon, NW-Crete), Systematics - Paleoecology1
- Otolithen aus dem Unter-Pliozän von Süd-Sizilien und aus der Toscana1
Each of the 7 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 content1
Picture of Diaphus kokeni
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- wakusaka
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Diaphus kokeni 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. (Procházka 1893)