Clonograptus

Clonograptus

Uncredited · 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
DichograptidaePBDB
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 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 482.9 Mya to 474.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 466.6 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 67 occurrencesOrdovician — about 67 of 67 occurrencesOrdovician487–487 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 2 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 2 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 2 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 3 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 3 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 3 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 3 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 3 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 4 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 4 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 4 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 4 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 4 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 3 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 2 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 3 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 1 occurrence470–470 Mya — about 1 occurrence470–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–468 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482.9 Mya474.9 Mya487.4 Mya466.1 Mya

67 occurrences of Clonograptus 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

67 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

32 formations

Lower Road River — 66.17°N, 136.08°WLower Road River — 65.88°N, 135.67°WGreen Point — 50.05°N, 57.70°WGreen Point — 49.68°N, 57.97°WBryo Gully Siltstone — 37.30°S, 144.73°EFlorentine Valley Limestone — 42.00°S, 146.00°EFlorentine Valley Limestone — 42.72°S, 146.48°EYeli — 40.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 37.00°N, 114.00°EYeli — 40.00°N, 114.00°EAorangi Mine — 40.60°S, 172.56°EAorangi Mine — 40.68°S, 172.68°EYinzhupu — 28.00°N, 118.00°EYinzhupu — 30.00°N, 120.00°ELa Alumbrera — 28.23°S, 67.70°WUkhrinskaya — 58.41°N, 37.53°EDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDuo Lake — 64.70°N, 130.80°WToyen — 60.00°N, 11.00°EDictyonema Shale — 55.58°N, 14.13°ELiuchen — 23.00°N, 110.00°EXingchang — 22.00°N, 112.00°EZhitai — 29.00°N, 109.00°EFengxiang — 29.00°N, 110.00°EDawan — 27.00°N, 101.00°ENingguo — 28.00°N, 118.00°EEmpozada — 33.00°S, 69.00°WLianjiashan — 40.00°N, 113.00°ESaint-Chinian — 43.44°N, 2.89°ESchistes de Saint-Chinian — 43.00°N, 3.00°EUpper Fezouata — 30.42°N, 5.85°W

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The named rock units Clonograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clonograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Clonograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Clonograptus, 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

35 references

Each of the 67 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. 23 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 Clonograptus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Clonograptus 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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What may have been alongside itDichograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nicholson 1873