Adelograptus antiquus
No picture of Adelograptus antiquus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Adelograptus antiquus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AdelograptusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Graptoloidea
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Graptoloidea
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Graptoloidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Graptolithina
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 488.9 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Adelograptus antiquus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
18 occurrences- Cambrianunder 1%
- Ordovician99%
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
6 formations
- Aorangi Mine Formation6
- Lower Road River Formation · Road River Group6
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group2
- Bryo Gully Siltstone Formation · Romsey Group2
- Fillmore Formation · Lower Pogonip Group1
- Sayram Formation1
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The named rock units Adelograptus antiquus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Adelograptus antiquus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Adelograptus antiquus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Aorograptus victoriae9 sites
- Clonograptus9 sites
- Kiaerograptus bulmani7 sites
- Kiaerograptus5 sites
- Adelograptus tenellus4 sites
- Paradelograptus4 sites
- Adelograptus brevibrachiatus3 sites
- Temnograptus3 sites
- Tetragraptus decipiens3 sites
- Adelograptus clarki2 sites
- Anisograptus2 sites
- Araneograptus2 sites
- Dictyonema pulchellum2 sites
- Paratemnograptus2 sites
- Bienvillia brevica1 site
- Bienvillia cavernosa1 site
- Clavatellus sinicus1 site
- Dichograpsus multiplex1 site
- Didymograptus1 site
- Drepanoistodus deltifer1 site
- Geragnostus1 site
- Hintzeia celsaora1 site
- Isograptus victoriae1 site
- Ophioxenikos langenheimi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Adelograptus antiquus, 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- Taxonomic and biostratigraphical significance of the Tremadoc graptolite fauna from northern Yukon Territory, Canada6
- Ordovician Geology and Graptolite faunas of the Aorangi Mine area, North-west Nelson, New Zealand6
- Late Tremadoc graptolites from western Newfoundland2
- The Tremadoc graptolite sequence of Lancefield, Victoria2
- New Lower Ordovician stelleroids (Echinodermata) and their bearing on the origins and early history of the stelleroid echinoderms1
- Tremadocian trilobites from western part of northern Tianshan, Xinjiang1
Each of the 18 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
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No picture of Adelograptus antiquus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Adelograptus antiquus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Adelograptus antiquus 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 itAdelograptus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1899)