Climacograptus

Climacograptus is an Ordovician genus of graptolites.

Climacograptus

James St. John (jsj1771) https://www.flickr.com/people/jsjgeology/ · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/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
ClimacograptidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Graptoloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 476 occurrencesOrdovician — about 412 of 476 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 64 of 476 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 476 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 1 occurrence484–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–477 Mya — about 2 occurrences477–474 Mya — about 3 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 3 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 5 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 9 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 10 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 10 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 16 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 31 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 44 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 38 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 50 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 73 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 53 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 48 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 26 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 20 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 13 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 9 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 7 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 1 occurrence421–418 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences477.1 Mya422.7 Mya488 Mya418 Mya

476 occurrences of Climacograptus 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

476 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

155 formations

Phi Kappa — 43.84°N, 114.27°WPhi Kappa — 43.85°N, 114.18°WWufeng — 33.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 109.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 109.00°EWufeng — 27.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 31.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 108.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 112.00°EWufeng — 30.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 31.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 115.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 118.00°EWufeng — 30.00°N, 117.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 119.00°EWufeng — 33.00°N, 106.00°EWufeng — 31.86°N, 111.86°EVinini — 39.87°N, 116.23°WRoad River — 62.64°N, 124.97°WRoad River — 65.35°N, 133.50°WRoad River — 62.47°N, 129.07°WRoad River — 62.42°N, 127.25°WRoad River — 65.22°N, 136.68°WRoad River — 65.40°N, 137.38°WRoad River — 64.92°N, 139.58°WRoad River — 64.92°N, 140.99°WRoad River — 64.95°N, 141.04°WRoad River — 64.96°N, 141.21°WRoad River — 65.96°N, 141.20°WLeslie — 41.14°S, 172.59°ELeslie — 41.09°S, 172.54°EWhitby — 45.50°N, 81.00°WWhitby — 43.88°N, 78.86°WWhitby — 43.87°N, 79.03°WWhitby — 44.53°N, 80.38°WPalmetto — 37.92°N, 117.91°WPalmetto — 37.99°N, 117.93°WPalmetto — 37.97°N, 117.96°WFjacka Shale — 61.00°N, 15.00°EFjacka Shale — 58.00°N, 15.00°EFjacka Shale — 58.00°N, 12.00°EFjacka Shale — 60.00°N, 16.00°EDescon — 55.63°N, 133.57°WDescon — 55.52°N, 133.30°WYinGan — 41.00°N, 79.00°EYinGan — 40.64°N, 79.50°EPeel — 41.14°S, 172.59°EPeel — 41.09°S, 172.54°EDalby — 61.00°N, 15.00°EDalby — 58.00°N, 14.00°EDalby — 58.00°N, 12.00°EHule — 29.00°N, 115.00°EHule — 28.00°N, 118.00°EHule — 29.00°N, 119.00°ENingguo — 29.00°N, 115.00°ENingguo — 28.00°N, 118.00°ENingguo — 29.00°N, 119.00°ELower Road River — 65.88°N, 135.67°WCopenhagen — 39.44°N, 116.29°WCopenhagen — 39.98°N, 116.27°WCopenhagen — 39.20°N, 116.25°WUtica Shale — 43.21°N, 75.46°WUtica Shale — 42.99°N, 74.80°WUtica Shale — 43.24°N, 75.26°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMiaopo — 33.00°N, 111.00°EMiaopo — 31.00°N, 111.00°EWhite Head — 48.47°N, 64.32°WWhite Head — 46.18°N, 59.82°WOued Ali — 29.00°N, 3.00°WOued Ali — 29.65°N, 2.28°WKhankhara — 51.07°N, 84.94°EKhankhara — 51.44°N, 83.15°EKhankhara — 51.34°N, 83.05°EBugryshikha — 51.28°N, 82.79°EBugryshikha — 51.34°N, 83.05°E

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The named rock units Climacograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 131 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 55 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Climacograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Climacograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,232 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 340 sites for Climacograptus, and this reads 240 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

129 references

Each of the 476 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. 117 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 Climacograptus

Credit
James St. John (jsj1771) https://www.flickr.com/people/jsjgeology/
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Climacograptus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Hall 1865)