Diplanus

Diplanus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
DerbyiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 76 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 6 of 94 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 88 of 94 occurrencesPermian342–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–336 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 3 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 7 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 9 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 2 occurrences291–288 Mya — about 3 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 4 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 10 occurrences282–279 Mya — about 19 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 19 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 12 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–255 Mya — about 3 occurrences255–252 Mya — about 1 occurrence335.9 Mya259.857 Mya342 Mya252 Mya

94 occurrences of Diplanus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

94 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

11 formations

Skinner Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.21°WSkinner Ranch — 30.33°N, 103.23°WSkinner Ranch — 30.26°N, 103.35°WSkinner Ranch — 30.25°N, 103.36°WSkinner Ranch — 30.20°N, 103.43°WCathedral Mountain — 30.22°N, 103.43°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.36°N, 103.19°WCathedral Mountain — 30.26°N, 103.37°WCathedral Mountain — 30.31°N, 103.30°WCathedral Mountain — 30.33°N, 103.22°WNeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WNeal Ranch — 30.35°N, 103.15°WBone Spring — 31.28°N, 104.85°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WBone Spring — 31.48°N, 104.95°WBone Spring — 31.88°N, 104.89°WCibolo — 29.86°N, 104.32°WCibolo — 29.83°N, 104.30°WEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EGaptank — 30.40°N, 102.96°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.12°WHess — 30.36°N, 103.16°WBaird — 40.90°N, 122.27°WMcCloud Limestone — 40.94°N, 122.24°WBee Low Limestones — 53.35°N, 1.80°W

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

Diplanus and its relatives

Permian

Where Diplanus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

979 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Diplanus, 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

6 references

Each of the 94 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 Diplanus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diplanus 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDerbyiidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stehli 1954