Diplomystus altus
No picture of Diplomystus altus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Diplomystus altus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiplomystusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ellimmichthyiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ellimmichthyiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ellimmichthyiformes
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Diplomystus altus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Diplomystus altus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diplomystus altus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Diplomystus altus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Pimelodus antiquus3 sites
- Amyzon gosiutensis2 sites
- Asineops squamifrons2 sites
- Alligator1 site
- Amia fragosa1 site
- Asilidae1 site
- Eopelobates1 site
- Equisetum1 site
- Erismatopterus levatus1 site
- Gosiutichthys parvus1 site
- Hypsidoris1 site
- Hypsidoris farsonensis1 site
- Liometopum1 site
- Titanomyrma lubei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Diplomystus altus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 Diplomystus altus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Diplomystus altus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diplomystus altus 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 itDiplomystus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1873)