Diplacanthus longispinus

Diplacanthus longispinus

(Duff, 1842) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
DiplacanthusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Acanthodii
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Acanthodii
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthodii

Time the record covers

At most 5.6 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences394 Mya387.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Diplacanthus longispinus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

Lybster Flagstone — 57.64°N, 3.03°W

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

Diplacanthus longispinus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Diplacanthus longispinus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Diplacanthus longispinus, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Diplacanthus longispinus

Credit
(Duff, 1842)
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diplacanthus longispinus 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 itDiplacanthus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1844