Diphyphyllum

Diphyphyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiphyphyllinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 130 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 108 occurrencesSilurian — about 24 of 108 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 4 of 108 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 80 of 108 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 108 occurrences453–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–437 Mya — about 5 occurrences437–432 Mya — about 5 occurrences432–426 Mya — about 6 occurrences426–421 Mya — about 5 occurrences421–416 Mya — about 2 occurrences416–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–406 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences406–400 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences400–395 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences395–390 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences390–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence385–379 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences379–374 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences374–369 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences369–364 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences364–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–353 Mya — about 1 occurrence353–348 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences348–343 Mya — about 6 occurrences343–338 Mya — about 10 occurrences338–332 Mya — about 29 occurrences332–327 Mya — about 22 occurrences327–322 Mya — about 6 occurrences322–317 Mya — about 2 occurrences317–312 Mya — about 1 occurrence312–306 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences306–301 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences301–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445.5 Mya315.2 Mya453 Mya296 Mya

108 occurrences of Diphyphyllum 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

108 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

45 formations

Vaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°WVaughn Gulch — 36.90°N, 118.07°WIdmarrach — 33.53°N, 5.39°WIdmarrach — 33.43°N, 5.22°WClogrenan — 52.83°N, 6.92°WClogrenan — 52.68°N, 7.02°WTula — 54.88°N, 52.33°EAnhee — 50.45°N, 5.25°EScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WHardrow Scar Limestone III — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSimonstone Limestone IV Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMiddle Limestone V — 54.30°N, 2.15°WUnderset Limestone VIII — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMain Limestone IX — 54.30°N, 2.15°WTizra — 33.53°N, 5.39°WAkerchi — 33.53°N, 5.39°WStainmore — 54.58°N, 3.53°WStainmore — 55.00°N, 1.75°WBou-Rifi — 32.92°N, 5.65°WMurphy Road — 45.01°N, 64.13°WLouisville Limestone — 40.55°N, 84.57°WFlett — 63.88°N, 127.75°WWeaver Beds — 52.80°N, 2.10°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WLodgepole — 45.78°N, 108.50°WGreat Blue — 40.30°N, 112.22°WLittle Flat — 43.83°N, 111.75°WPeratrovich — 55.43°N, 133.10°W

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The named rock units Diphyphyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diphyphyllum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Diphyphyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

702 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Diphyphyllum, 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

41 references

Each of the 108 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. 29 further references are not listed. 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 Diphyphyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Diphyphyllum 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lonsdale 1845)