Dipteridae

Dipteridae is an extinct family of prehistoric lungfishes which lived in the Devonian period.

Dipteridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DipteriformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
lagoonal,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dipnoi

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 55 of 55 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 55 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 2 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 3 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 3 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 2 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 8 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 4 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 4 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 3 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 2 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 3 occurrences367–365 Mya — about 3 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 1 occurrence364–363 Mya — about 1 occurrence363–362 Mya — about 1 occurrence362–361 Mya — about 1 occurrence361–359 Mya — about 1 occurrence359–358 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences387.95 Mya365.2 Mya394.2 Mya358.2 Mya

55 occurrences of Dipteridae 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

55 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

31 formations

Oberer Plattenkalk — 50.99°N, 7.15°ETurgenevo — 52.90°N, 36.03°ELybster Flagstone — 58.47°N, 3.46°WLybster Flagstone — 57.83°N, 4.18°WLybster Flagstone — 57.64°N, 3.03°WLybster Flagstone — 58.44°N, 3.50°WAruküla — 59.37°N, 25.08°EBindaree — 37.17°S, 146.65°EGauja — 58.01°N, 25.38°ENarva — 57.55°N, 25.29°EBahram — 30.76°N, 57.03°ESpital Flagstone — 58.47°N, 3.42°WEvieux — 50.67°N, 5.70°EDubniki — 59.89°N, 32.80°EGogo — 19.06°S, 125.60°EKovanshchina — 54.13°N, 36.56°EKhovanshchina — 53.55°N, 38.85°ENarva — 59.38°N, 28.19°ELan' — 52.16°N, 27.30°EDankov-Lebedyan Beds — 52.97°N, 36.07°EWitpoort — 33.32°S, 26.54°ERubchan — 52.07°N, 27.74°EUpper Stromness Flagstones — 59.08°N, 3.32°WMelby — 60.29°N, 1.70°WKetleri — 56.59°N, 22.01°ECrosskirk Bay — 57.61°N, 3.12°WHam-Scarfskerry Flagstone — 58.62°N, 3.59°W

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The named rock units Dipteridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dipteridae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Dipteridae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Dipteridae, 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

21 references

Each of the 55 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. 9 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 Dipteridae

Credit
User:Haplochromis
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dipteridae 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 itDipteriformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1846