Diaphus luetkeni

Diaphus luetkeni, also known as Luetken's lanternfish, is a species of lanternfish found worldwide.

Diaphus luetkeni

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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 2.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–3.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences840 ka–700 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences700 ka–560 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences560 ka–420 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420 ka–280 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280 ka–140 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140 ka–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3 Mya774 ka4.2 Mya0 Mya

2 occurrences of Diaphus luetkeni on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

2 occurrences

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

Whenuataru Tuff — 44.24°S, 176.28°EMiyata — 35.19°N, 39.65°E

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The named rock units Diaphus luetkeni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Diaphus luetkeni and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Diaphus luetkeni and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

55 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Diaphus luetkeni, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 content1

Picture of Diaphus luetkeni

Credit
Unknown author Unknown author
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diaphus luetkeni 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Brauer 1904)