Climacograptus scalaris
No picture of Climacograptus scalaris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Climacograptus scalaris itself, so it was not used. 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 Climacograptus scalaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClimacograptusPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Climacograptus scalaris 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
23 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.
Found in
10 formations
- Descon Formation4
- Phi Kappa Formation2
- Jupiter Formation · Anticosti Group1
- Oued Ali Formation1
- Tizi Ambed Formation1
- Lower Jenhochiao Formation1
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The named rock units Climacograptus scalaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Climacograptus scalaris and its relatives
SilurianWhere Climacograptus scalaris and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Monograptus11 sites
- Petalolithus6 sites
- Campograptus lobiferus5 sites
- Normalograptus rectangularis4 sites
- Rastrites4 sites
- Atavograptus atavus3 sites
- Diplograptus3 sites
- Lituigraptus convolutus3 sites
- Oktavites spiralis3 sites
- Orthograptus3 sites
- Pristiograptus3 sites
- Cephalograptus2 sites
- Demirastrites2 sites
- Glyptograptus incertus2 sites
- Metaclimacograptus undulatus2 sites
- Monograptus priodon2 sites
- Pseudoclimacograptus2 sites
- Rhaphidograptus toernquisti2 sites
- Streptograptus2 sites
- Aegiria1 site
- Akidograptus1 site
- Campograptus harpago1 site
- Coronograptus cyphus1 site
- Dimorphograptus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Climacograptus scalaris, 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
10 references- On the Graptolite Schists Formation (Silurian–Lower Devonian) in the Carpatho–Balkanides of eastern Serbia4
- Correlation of the African Silurian rocks4
- Early Silurian Graptolites from Southeastern Alaska and their correlation with graptolitic sequences in North America and the Arctic4
- Llandoverian and Wenlockian graptolites from Bornholm3
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China2
- Ordovician and Silurian graptolite succession in the Trail Creek area, central Idaho-a graptolite zone reference section2
- The Ordovician-Silurian boundary successions in Östergötland and Västergötland, S. Sweden1
- Some Silurian (Llandovery) monograptids from Saudi Arabia1
- Atrypoid brachiopods and their distribution in the Ordovician-Silurian sequence of Anticosti Island1
- The Lower Palaeozoic fossils of the Northern Shan States, Burma. With a section of Ordovician cystidea by F. A. Bather [q.v.]1
Each of the 23 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 Climacograptus scalaris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Climacograptus scalaris itself, so it was not used.
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 Climacograptus scalaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Climacograptus scalaris 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 itClimacograptus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lapworth 1877