Diapterus sp.

Diapterus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Gerreidae, the mojarras. They are native to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas.

A picture published with the record for Diapterus sp.. What it shows has not been checked.

Jose Luis Andrade Campos · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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.

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPliocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.8–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.5–3.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15.98 Mya5.333 Mya23.5 Mya3.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Diapterus sp. 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

2 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

2 formations

Cantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WOnzole — 0.87°N, 79.89°W

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The named rock units Diapterus sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Diapterus sp. and its relatives

Miocene

Where Diapterus sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Diapterus sp., 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 2 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 content1

Picture of Diapterus sp.

Credit
Jose Luis Andrade Campos
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CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Diapterus sp. 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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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.