Diaphelasma
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClarkellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 6.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 483.4 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 457.3 Mya.
19 occurrences of Diaphelasma on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
19 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
9 formations
- Boat Harbour Formation · St. George Group9
- Gorman Formation2
- Honghuayuan Formation2
- Rockdale Run Formation1
- Deadwood Formation1
- Fort Ann Formation1
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The named rock units Diaphelasma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diaphelasma and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Diaphelasma and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Gastropoda6 sites
- Hillyardina levis5 sites
- Hystricurus5 sites
- Hystricurus oculilunatus5 sites
- Parahystricurus smithiae5 sites
- Randaynia saundersi5 sites
- Bassleroceras3 sites
- Cephalopoda3 sites
- Clitendoceras3 sites
- Hystricurus deflectus3 sites
- Lecanospira3 sites
- Ecculiomphalus2 sites
- Echinodermata2 sites
- Euconia2 sites
- Hormotoma2 sites
- Hyperbolochilus2 sites
- Lecanospira compacta2 sites
- Macluritella2 sites
- Mcqueenoceras2 sites
- Ophileta2 sites
- Orthidae2 sites
- Parabellefontia2 sites
- Syntrophina2 sites
- Syntrophinella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Diaphelasma, 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- Early Ordovician trilobite faunas of the Boat Harbour and Catoche Formations (St. George Group) in the Boat-Harbour-Cape Norman area, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland7
- Stratigraphic Summary of the Southwestern Region of China3
- Preliminary Ordovician trilobite stratigraphy of the Eddies Cove West-Port au Choix area, western Newfoundland1
- Further developments in western Newfoundland Cambro-Ordovician biostratigraphy1
- Reassessment of Arenig and Llanvirn age (early Ordovician) brachiopods from Anglesey, north-west Wales1
- Part II - Fossils from the Smith Basin Limestone of the Fort Ann Region New York1
- Stratigraphy of Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician Subsurface Sequence in Williston Basin1
- Devonian-Mississippian Transition in Central Texas1
- Beekmantown Group (Lower Ordovician) of Maryland1
- Cambrian and Ordovician fossils from Sørkapp Land, Spitsbergen1
- The Ellenburger Group of central Texas1
Each of the 19 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 Diaphelasma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Diaphelasma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diaphelasma was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itClarkellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.