Diaphorodus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta
Time the record covers
At least 5.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 475.3 Mya to 469.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
16 occurrences of Diaphorodus 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
16 occurrences- Cambrianunder 1%
- Ordovician99%
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
4 formations
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group12
- Beauharnois Formation · Beekmantown Group1
- Shallow Bay Formation · Cow Head Group1
- Fort Cassin Formation1
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The named rock units Diaphorodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diaphorodus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Diaphorodus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Paroistodus originalis13 sites
- Protopanderodus robustus12 sites
- Drepanoistodus11 sites
- Parapanderodus10 sites
- Protoprioniodus10 sites
- Drepanodus9 sites
- Costiconus costatus7 sites
- Eucharodus7 sites
- Gothodus7 sites
- Oistodus7 sites
- Periodon6 sites
- Protopanderodus6 sites
- Spinodus6 sites
- Periodon hankensis5 sites
- Fahraeusodus marathonensis4 sites
- Oistodus lanceolatus4 sites
- Parapanderodus gracilis4 sites
- Protopanderodus calceatus4 sites
- Periodon macrodentatus3 sites
- Pteracontiodus3 sites
- Acodus similaris2 sites
- Ansella longicuspica2 sites
- Apteracontiodus2 sites
- Costiconus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Diaphorodus, 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
4 references- Middle Ordovician (late Dapingian–Darriwilian) conodonts from the Cow Head Group and Lower Head Formation, western Newfoundland, Canada13
- Cambrian and Ordovician stratigraphy, conodont biostratigraphy, and microfacies analysis to support 1:24,000-scale geologic mapping of the southern Lake Champlain valley, New York and Vermont1
- Lower Ordovician faunas, stratigraphy, and sea-level history of the Middle Beekmantown Group, Northeastern New York1
- Fauna of the lower Beauharnois Formation (Beekmantown Group, Lower Ordovician), Grand île, Quebec1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Diaphorodus 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 Diaphorodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diaphorodus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kennedy 1980