Diporites

No picture of Diporites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Diporites firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
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Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 16 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 16 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66 Mya23.04 Mya73 Mya15 Mya

16 occurrences of Diporites on record. 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

16 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

6 formations

Monte Leon — 47.08°S, 66.39°WFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°ELisbon — 31.56°N, 87.91°WMonte León — 47.08°S, 66.39°WOld Church — 37.67°N, 77.14°WWinona — 32.22°N, 88.84°W

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The named rock units Diporites 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.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Diporites, 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

6 references

Each of the 16 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 Diporites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Diporites firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van der Hammen 1954