Diplacanthus crassisimus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiplacanthusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acanthodii
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Acanthodii
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthodii
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Diplacanthus crassisimus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
6 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Lybster Flagstone Formation · Caithness Flagstone Group5
- Upper Stromness Flagstones Formation1
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The named rock units Diplacanthus crassisimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diplacanthus crassisimus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Diplacanthus crassisimus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Cheirolepis trailli6 sites
- Coccosteus cuspidatus6 sites
- Cheiracanthus murchisoni5 sites
- Osteolepis macrolepidotus5 sites
- Pterichthyodes milleri5 sites
- Diplacanthus striatus4 sites
- Dipterus valenciennesi4 sites
- Glyptolepis leptopterus4 sites
- Rhadinacanthus longispinus4 sites
- Gyroptychius3 sites
- Cheiracanthus latus2 sites
- Diplacanthus tenuistriatus2 sites
- Homosteus milleri2 sites
- Palaeospondylus gunni2 sites
- Rhamphodopsis threiplandi2 sites
- Achanarella trewini1 site
- Cornovichthys blaauweni1 site
- Diplacanthus longispinus1 site
- Glyptolepis1 site
- Glyptolepis paucidens1 site
- Gyroptychius agassizi1 site
- Holoptychius1 site
- Mesacanthus1 site
- Mesacanthus peachi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Diplacanthus crassisimus, 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
3 references- The diplacanthid fishes (Acanthodii, Diplacanthiformes, Diplacanthidae) from the Middle Devonian of Scotland4
- Fossil Fishes of Great Britain1
- Sketch of the Geology of Moray1
Each of the 6 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 Diplacanthus crassisimus 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 Diplacanthus crassisimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diplacanthus crassisimus 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 itDiplacanthus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duff 1942