Diaphus perspicillatoides
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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 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.
11 occurrences of Diaphus perspicillatoides 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
11 occurrences- Oligocene18%
- Miocene73%
- Pleistocene9%
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
4 formations
- Waioha Shellbeds Formation1
- Pakaurangi Formation1
- Hukatere Sandstone Formation1
- Mount Harris Formation1
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The named rock units Diaphus perspicillatoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diaphus perspicillatoides and its relatives
MioceneWhere Diaphus perspicillatoides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
165 taxa- Acropoma serrata7 sites
- Congridarum carinatus7 sites
- Hoplichthys multistriatus7 sites
- Paraulopus7 sites
- Auchenoceros bicaudatus6 sites
- Bregmaceros prosoponus6 sites
- Diaphus curvatus6 sites
- Echiodon teres6 sites
- Gadiculus adversus5 sites
- Optivus moko5 sites
- Scopelus regularis5 sites
- Centroberyx worthyi4 sites
- Coelorinchus divulgatus4 sites
- Electrona subasperoides4 sites
- Euclichthys novaezeelandiae4 sites
- Hygophum circularis4 sites
- Nezumia sagittiformis4 sites
- Notoscopelus scopelopsoides4 sites
- Saccogaster parengarenga4 sites
- Symbolophorus prionotus4 sites
- Caulopsetta arnoglossoides3 sites
- Cepola ambifaria3 sites
- Ceratoscopelus richardsoni3 sites
- Conger tokoroa3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Diaphus perspicillatoides, 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- Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths8
- Fish and ostracod remains from the Santos Basin (Cretaceous to Recent), Brazil1
- Otolithes de poissons du paléocanyon de saubrigues (chattien à langhien), aquitaine méridionale, France1
- Diaphus otoliths from the European Oligocene (Myctophidae, Teleostei)1
Each of the 11 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
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No picture of Diaphus perspicillatoides 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 perspicillatoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diaphus perspicillatoides 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.
Keep going
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 1995