Diaphus garmani

Diaphus garmani, also known as Garman's lanternfish, is a species of lanternfish found worldwide.

Diaphus garmani

miriky, camp. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
DiaphusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya15.98 Mya57 Mya4 Mya

3 occurrences of Diaphus garmani on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

3 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.

Diaphus garmani and its relatives

Miocene

Where Diaphus garmani and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Diaphus garmani, 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

Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Diaphus garmani

Source
GBIF
Credit
miriky, camp.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diaphus garmani 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.

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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gilbert 1906