Chaunograptus

No picture of Chaunograptus was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Chaunograptus itself, so it was not used. Wikipedia and 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 Chaunograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThecaphoraPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hydrozoa

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 505.3 Mya to 451 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 509.7 Mya to 450.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 5 of 6 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 6 occurrencesOrdovician511–509 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 2 occurrences507–505 Mya — about 2 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–501 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences499–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence505.3 Mya451 Mya511 Mya449 Mya

6 occurrences of Chaunograptus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

6 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

3 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WStephen — 51.40°N, 116.48°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°W

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The named rock units Chaunograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Chaunograptus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Chaunograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

215 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Chaunograptus, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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 Chaunograptus was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Chaunograptus itself, so it was not used.

Wikipedia and 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 Chaunograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Chaunograptus 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 itThecaphora through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.