Diadectes

Diadectes

Ghedoghedo · Public Domain · 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
Sits inside
DiadectidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 68 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 65 of 68 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 68 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 3 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 3 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 3 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 4 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 4 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 8 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 8 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 7 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 7 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 3 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 3 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 3 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 3 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 3 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences258–256 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences256–254 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298.9 Mya283.3 Mya305 Mya251 Mya

68 occurrences of Diadectes 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

68 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

21 formations

Arroyo — 33.77°N, 99.22°WArroyo — 33.70°N, 99.27°WArroyo — 33.59°N, 99.26°WArroyo — 33.73°N, 99.36°WArroyo — 33.97°N, 99.20°WBelle Plains — 33.74°N, 98.90°WBelle Plains — 33.87°N, 98.84°WBelle Plains — 33.69°N, 99.02°WAdmiral — 33.62°N, 98.86°WAdmiral — 33.82°N, 98.69°WWaggoner Ranch — 33.82°N, 98.69°WWaggoner Ranch — 33.76°N, 99.14°WVale — 32.45°N, 99.73°WVale — 32.13°N, 99.75°WVale — 32.23°N, 99.83°WVale — 33.67°N, 99.78°WAbo/Cutler — 36.28°N, 106.36°WAbo/Cutler — 36.18°N, 106.67°WAbo/Cutler — 36.16°N, 106.64°WAbo/Cutler — 34.17°N, 106.75°WCutler — 37.03°N, 110.06°WCutler — 36.16°N, 106.65°WCutler — 36.31°N, 106.35°WEl Cobre Canyon — 36.14°N, 106.62°WAbo — 35.77°N, 106.69°WAbo — 34.64°N, 107.18°WAbo — 38.76°N, 107.05°WClyde — 33.77°N, 99.10°WPutnam — 33.60°N, 98.63°WPetrolia — 33.69°N, 99.02°WPetrolia — 33.64°N, 98.90°WNocona — 33.68°N, 98.70°WNocona — 33.72°N, 98.34°WArroyo del Agua — 36.12°N, 106.66°WArroyo del Agua — 36.12°N, 106.64°WArcher City — 33.58°N, 98.65°WArcher City — 33.67°N, 98.69°WGarber — 34.30°N, 98.60°WGarber — 36.66°N, 97.69°WAda — 34.93°N, 96.70°WTambach — 50.81°N, 10.62°ELueders — 33.78°N, 99.14°WSangre de Cristo — 34.64°N, 107.18°WGarber Sandstone — 34.58°N, 98.85°W

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The named rock units Diadectes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diadectes and its relatives

Permian

Where Diadectes and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

211 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Diadectes, 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

22 references

Each of the 68 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Diadectes

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Diadectes absitus · FSG:MNG:14473

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1878