Callograptus

Callograptus

Bjoertvedt · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
AcanthograptidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At least 150 million years on record.

The record covers at least 497 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 339.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 6 of 58 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 48 of 58 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 58 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 58 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 58 occurrencesCarboniferous510–504 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences504–498 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences498–493 Mya — about 2 occurrences493–487 Mya — about 3 occurrences487–481 Mya — about 22 occurrences481–475 Mya — about 14 occurrences475–469 Mya — about 5 occurrences469–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–446 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences446–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–435 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–406 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences406–400 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences400–394 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences394–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–342 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences342–337 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences497 Mya346.7 Mya510 Mya337 Mya

58 occurrences of Callograptus 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

58 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

Madaoyu — 29.19°N, 111.27°EYeli — 40.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 39.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 37.00°N, 114.00°EYeli — 40.00°N, 114.00°EYeli — 38.00°N, 113.00°EYeli — 42.00°N, 127.00°EYeli — 42.00°N, 126.00°EDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WNanjinguan — 30.00°N, 111.00°ENanjinguan — 31.00°N, 111.00°EZlichov Limestone — 49.50°N, 14.33°EYehLi — 41.00°N, 123.00°EUigur — 68.00°N, 88.82°EKhantayka — 68.07°N, 87.85°ETuloi — 52.02°N, 87.12°EKlabava — 50.00°N, 14.00°EVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EGuotang — 26.00°N, 108.00°ETongzi — 28.00°N, 109.00°EFengxiang — 30.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EVolcancito — 29.00°S, 68.00°WYaomoshan — 40.00°N, 99.00°EUst’Kut — 60.00°N, 116.00°ENyaiskii — 68.00°N, 88.00°EUjgur — 68.00°N, 88.00°EFombuena — 41.13°N, 1.21°WRoad River — 66.42°N, 135.53°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WGuole — 23.34°N, 106.13°E

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The named rock units Callograptus 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. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Callograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Callograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

485 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Callograptus, 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

28 references

Each of the 58 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. 16 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 Callograptus

Credit
Bjoertvedt
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Callograptus 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.