Cephalograptus
No picture of Cephalograptus 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 Cephalograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiplograptidaePBDB
- 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 7.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 440.5 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cephalograptus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
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.
Cephalograptus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Cephalograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Climacograptus scalaris2 sites
- Monograptus2 sites
- Petalolithus2 sites
- Rastrites2 sites
- Campograptus harpago1 site
- Diversograptus1 site
- Glyptograptus incertus1 site
- Lituigraptus convolutus1 site
- Metaclimacograptus undulatus1 site
- Orthograptus1 site
- Pristiograptus1 site
- Pseudoclimacograptus1 site
- Pseudoplegmatograptus1 site
- Retiolites (Pseudoretiolites)1 site
- Spirograptus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cephalograptus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Llandoverian and Wenlockian graptolites from Bornholm2
- On the Graptolite Schists Formation (Silurian–Lower Devonian) in the Carpatho–Balkanides of eastern Serbia1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cephalograptus 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 Cephalograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cephalograptus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDiplograptidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.