Azygograptus
Searched as Azygograptus cf. fasciculatus attenuatus. The Paleobiology Database treats Azygograptus as the accepted name.
No picture of Azygograptus 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 Azygograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DidymograptiPBDB
- 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 469.4 Mya and 452.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Azygograptus 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
4 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
- Peel Formation · Golden Bay Group3
- Leslie Formation · Aorere Group1
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The named rock units Azygograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Azygograptus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Azygograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
407 taxa- Didymograptus28 sites
- Climacograptus14 sites
- Phyllograptus14 sites
- Amplexograptus13 sites
- Nicholsonograptus fasciculatus11 sites
- Tetragraptus11 sites
- Diplograptus10 sites
- Sinorthis9 sites
- Dicellograptus8 sites
- Glyptograptus8 sites
- Taihungshania7 sites
- Dicellograptus sextans6 sites
- Glossograptus hincksii6 sites
- Mimella6 sites
- Neseuretus6 sites
- Cryptograptus schaeferi5 sites
- Dichograptidae5 sites
- Glossograptus5 sites
- Hustedograptus teretiusculus5 sites
- Pterograptus5 sites
- Yangtzeella5 sites
- Dictyonema4 sites
- Didymograptus nicholsoni4 sites
- Leptella4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Azygograptus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Azygograptus 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 Azygograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Azygograptus 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 itDidymograpti through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nicholson and Lapworth 1875