Diasparactus

Diasparactus is an extinct genus of diadectid reptiliomorphs, a group quite closely related to the amniotes, and paralleling some of their features. Like all advanced diadectids, Diasparactus was a herbivore, though not as large as its more well known relative Diadectes.

Diasparactus

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiadectidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At most 4.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 298.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 1 occurrence304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304.2 Mya298.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Diasparactus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

1 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

1 formation

  • Oread Formation · lowermost Shawnee GroupKansas · US · 303.7–298.9 Mya1
Oread — 38.00°N, 96.19°W

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

Diasparactus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Diasparactus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Diasparactus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Diasparactus

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diasparactus 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 itDiadectidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Case 1910