Cryptograptus schaeferi

No picture of Cryptograptus schaeferi 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 Cryptograptus schaeferi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CryptograptusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cryptograptus
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Cryptograptus
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cryptograptus
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At most 44 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 16 occurrencesOrdovician — about 16 of 16 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 16 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–462 Mya — about 1 occurrence462–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–453 Mya — about 1 occurrence453–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487.7 Mya442.2 Mya

16 occurrences of Cryptograptus schaeferi 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

16 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

6 formations

Leslie — 41.14°S, 172.59°ELeslie — 41.09°S, 172.54°EPeel — 41.14°S, 172.59°EPeel — 41.09°S, 172.54°EBlack Cove — 50.36°N, 57.54°WSlaty Creek — 40.70°S, 172.44°ERoad River — 65.02°N, 141.21°WCoroico — 15.48°S, 68.62°W

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The named rock units Cryptograptus schaeferi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cryptograptus schaeferi and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cryptograptus schaeferi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Cryptograptus schaeferi, 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

8 references

Each of the 16 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 Cryptograptus schaeferi 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 Cryptograptus schaeferi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cryptograptus schaeferi 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 itCryptograptus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lapworth 1880)