Diaphus chrysorhynchus
Diaphus chrysorhynchus, the golden-nose lantern fish, is a species of lanternfish found in the Pacific Ocean.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiaphusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Diaphus chrysorhynchus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
7 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
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The named rock units Diaphus chrysorhynchus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diaphus chrysorhynchus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Diaphus chrysorhynchus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Benthosema pterotum4 sites
- Ceratoscopelus townsendi3 sites
- Diaphus problematicus3 sites
- Lampanyctus nobilis3 sites
- Lobianchia gemellari3 sites
- Myctophidae3 sites
- Polyipnus3 sites
- Apogonidae2 sites
- Bathycongrus2 sites
- Benthosema duanformis2 sites
- Benthosema parafibulatum2 sites
- Bothidae2 sites
- Bregmaceros2 sites
- Coelorinchus2 sites
- Congridae2 sites
- Diaphus mollis2 sites
- Diaphus perspicillatus2 sites
- Engraulis japonicus2 sites
- Gobiidae2 sites
- Gutingichthys changi2 sites
- Hymenocephalus2 sites
- Lampanyctus alatus2 sites
- Myctophum evermanni2 sites
- Myersina filifer2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Diaphus chrysorhynchus, 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
2 references- Lanternfish otoliths (Teleostei, Myctophidae) from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Japan4
- Early Pliocene otolith assemblages from the outer-shelf environment reveal the establishment of mesopelagic fish fauna over 3 million years ago in southwestern Taiwan3
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Diaphus chrysorhynchus 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 Diaphus chrysorhynchus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diaphus chrysorhynchus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- 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 itDiaphus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gilbert and Cramer 1897