Diogenichthys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MyctophidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Myctophiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myctophiformes
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 21.7 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 25.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.
14 occurrences of Diogenichthys on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
14 occurrences- Oligocene4%
- Miocene74%
- Pliocene14%
- Pleistocene7%
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
10 formations
- Navidad Formation3
- Brasso Formation1
- Rifle Butts Formation · Kaierero Group1
- Whenuataru Tuff Formation1
- Mandorové Formation1
- Ranquil Formation1
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The named rock units Diogenichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diogenichthys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Diogenichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
205 taxa- Notoscopelus scopelopsoides5 sites
- Steindachneria svennielseni5 sites
- Ceratoscopelus4 sites
- Diaphus splendidus4 sites
- Achirus australis3 sites
- Achirus chungkuz3 sites
- Citharichthys parvisulcus3 sites
- Coelorinchus3 sites
- Coelorinchus fidelis3 sites
- Diaphus3 sites
- Gnathophis quinzioi3 sites
- Kuhlia orientalis3 sites
- Lampanyctus popoto3 sites
- Lepophidium mapucheorum3 sites
- Myctophidae3 sites
- Navidadichthys mirus3 sites
- Nezumia epuge3 sites
- Polyipnus3 sites
- Rhynchoconger chiloensis3 sites
- Agonopsis cume2 sites
- Ameghinomya volckmanni2 sites
- Apogonidae2 sites
- Argentina2 sites
- Aturia cubaensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Diogenichthys, 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
8 references- Fish otoliths from the early Miocene of Chile: a window into the evolution of marine bony fishes in the Southeast Pacific6
- Reconstruction of the fossil marine bony fish fauna (Teleostei) from the Eocene to Pleistocene of New Zealand by means of otoliths. With studies of Recent congroid, morid and trachinoid otoliths2
- Remarkable dominance of myctophid otoliths in Upper Miocene Chagres Formation, Caribbean Panama1
- Early Pliocene otolith assemblages from the outer-shelf environment reveal the establishment of mesopelagic fish fauna over 3 million years ago in southwestern Taiwan1
- Fossil fish otoliths from the Chibanian Miyata Formation, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, with comments on the paleoenvironment1
- Otoliths from the Miocene of West Africa, primarily from the Mandorové Formation of Gabon1
- Otoliths of the Myctophidae from the Neogene of tropical America1
- Fish otoliths from the New Zealand Tertiary1
Each of the 14 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 Diogenichthys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Diogenichthys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diogenichthys 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.
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What may have been alongside itMyctophidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bolin 1839