Diplectrum

Diplectrum

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
Also called
sand perchPBDB
Sits inside
SerranidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Perciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Perciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Perciformes

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.0–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–4.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.8–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–1.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41.03 Mya3.6 Mya49 Mya1.7 Mya

5 occurrences of Diplectrum on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

5 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

5 formations

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMiretrain Marl — 43.57°N, 1.11°W

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

Diplectrum and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Diplectrum and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

536 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Diplectrum, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 content2

Picture of Diplectrum

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Diplectrum formosum · UWFC:ADULT COLLECTION:UW 016762

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSerranidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holbrook 1855