Diaphus rafinesqui

Diaphus rafinesqui

DEEPEND Consortium (Deep Pelagic Nekton Dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico) · 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 1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6 Mya2.58 Mya5.8 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Diaphus rafinesqui on record. 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

4 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 the same rock

116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Diaphus rafinesqui, 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 4 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 content1

Picture of Diaphus rafinesqui

Source
GBIF
Credit
DEEPEND Consortium (Deep Pelagic Nekton Dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diaphus rafinesqui 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDiaphus through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cocco 1838)