Diploceraspis

Diploceraspis is an extinct genus of diplocaulid nectrideans. It lived in North America during the Permian period. It closely resembles its relative, Diplocaulus. It generally sports the same features as Diplocaulus, though it was smaller, measuring over 46 cm. Beerbower originally recognised two species, D. burkei and D. conemaughensis, but they are no longer regarded as being distinct from one another as their size ranges were found to overlap. Other species include D. meritae from Nebraska and an indeterminate species from Oklahoma. Diplocaulus minimus of Late Permian Morocco may be of this genus.

Diploceraspis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiplocaulidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At least 6.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 300.3 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307.4 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 25 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 22 of 25 occurrencesPermian308–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 2 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 4 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 4 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 4 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 4 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 4 occurrences290–290 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences300.3 Mya293.52 Mya307.9 Mya289.6 Mya

25 occurrences of Diploceraspis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

25 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

4 formations

Greene — 39.71°N, 80.82°WGreene — 39.78°N, 80.55°WGreene — 39.05°N, 81.49°WGreene — 39.75°N, 79.84°WGreene — 39.78°N, 80.60°WGreene — 39.68°N, 80.31°WGreene — 39.80°N, 80.81°WGreene — 39.87°N, 80.68°WGreene — 39.99°N, 80.54°WGreene — 40.01°N, 80.69°WGreene — 39.86°N, 80.39°WGreene — 39.66°N, 80.40°WGreene — 39.63°N, 80.57°WGreene — 39.65°N, 80.53°WGreene — 39.63°N, 80.70°WGreene — 39.24°N, 81.46°WGreene — 39.24°N, 81.41°WWashington — 39.76°N, 81.00°WWashington — 39.99°N, 80.58°WGreeene — 39.90°N, 80.77°WPittsburgh — 40.04°N, 80.66°W

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The named rock units Diploceraspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diploceraspis and its relatives

Permian

Where Diploceraspis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Diploceraspis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 25 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 Diploceraspis

Credit
Creator:Dmitry Bogdanov
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itDiplocaulidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.