Diraphora

Diraphora is an extinct genus of brachiopod that lived in the Cambrian. Its remains have been found in Australia and North America. 664 specimens of Diraphora are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 1.26% of the community.

Diraphora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BohemiellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 9.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 500.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 515.3 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 52 of 52 occurrencesCambrian516–515 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 2 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 4 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 4 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 4 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 4 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 4 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 4 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 2 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 1 occurrence500–500 Mya — about 3 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 3 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 3 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 3 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 3 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences509.7 Mya500.5 Mya515.8 Mya496.5 Mya

52 occurrences of Diraphora on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

52 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

8 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WBurgess Shale — 51.39°N, 116.43°WRiley — 30.64°N, 99.26°WRiley — 30.81°N, 98.28°WRiley — 30.76°N, 99.41°WRiley — 30.54°N, 99.09°WRiley — 30.49°N, 98.52°WTindall Limestone — 13.75°S, 131.37°EStephen — 51.34°N, 116.37°WSkeels Corner Slate — 44.78°N, 73.11°WArrojos — 30.42°N, 111.93°WAncaucha Olistolith — 30.23°S, 68.89°WSnezhnyye Gory — 72.99°N, 53.31°E

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

Diraphora and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Diraphora and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

255 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Diraphora, 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

11 references

Each of the 52 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 content1

Picture of Diraphora

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iDigBio
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Licence
CC0
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

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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 itBohemiellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.