Baltograptus vacillans

No picture of Baltograptus vacillans 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 Baltograptus vacillans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BaltograptusPBDB
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 19 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesOrdovician — about 13 of 13 occurrencesOrdovician487–487 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487.4 Mya467.5 Mya

13 occurrences of Baltograptus vacillans 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

13 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

5 formations

Acoite — 23.07°S, 65.70°WAcoite — 23.67°S, 65.69°WAcoite — 23.58°S, 65.69°WAcoite — 23.26°S, 65.64°WAcoite — 22.99°S, 65.70°WUpper Fezouata — 30.49°N, 5.88°WLower Fezouata — 30.51°N, 6.07°WRollston Range — 20.53°S, 146.43°EParcha — 24.58°S, 64.55°W

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The named rock units Baltograptus vacillans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Baltograptus vacillans and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Baltograptus vacillans and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

75 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Baltograptus vacillans, 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

7 references

Each of the 13 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 Baltograptus vacillans 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 Baltograptus vacillans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Baltograptus vacillans 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tullberg 1880)