Dendrograptus

Dendrograptus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DendrograptidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Dendroidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dendroidea
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dendroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At least 97 million years on record.

The record covers at least 497 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 500.5 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Cambrian — about 12 of 57 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 42 of 57 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 57 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 57 occurrencesDevonian503–499 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences499–495 Mya — about 2 occurrences495–492 Mya — about 3 occurrences492–488 Mya — about 5 occurrences488–484 Mya — about 7 occurrences484–480 Mya — about 10 occurrences480–477 Mya — about 9 occurrences477–473 Mya — about 3 occurrences473–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–458 Mya — about 3 occurrences458–454 Mya — about 4 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–443 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–432 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences425–421 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences402–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–395 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences395–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences497 Mya399.5 Mya503 Mya391 Mya

57 occurrences of Dendrograptus 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

57 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

34 formations

Yeli — 40.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 40.00°N, 119.00°EYeli — 37.00°N, 114.00°EYeli — 40.00°N, 114.00°EYeli — 38.00°N, 113.00°EYeli — 42.00°N, 127.00°EYeli — 42.00°N, 126.00°EDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WMadaoyu — 29.00°N, 111.00°EMadaoyu — 29.19°N, 111.27°EMadaoyu — 28.78°N, 109.84°ERoad River — 66.42°N, 135.53°WRoad River — 66.47°N, 135.60°WYinzhupu — 29.00°N, 115.00°EYehLi — 41.00°N, 123.00°ETrempealeau — 44.52°N, 89.57°WLiuchen — 23.00°N, 110.00°EDawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EFengxiang — 33.00°N, 111.00°ETonggao — 26.00°N, 108.00°ETongzi — 28.00°N, 109.00°EPanjiazui — 29.00°N, 111.00°ENanjinguan — 30.00°N, 111.00°EXiaqiaojia — 26.00°N, 102.00°ELunshan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EDaleje Shale — 50.04°N, 14.39°EKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.32°ELitohlavy — 50.08°N, 14.47°ELianjiashan — 40.00°N, 113.00°EDuanjiaxia — 35.00°N, 107.00°EDongzhuang — 35.00°N, 109.00°EKoumengzi — 37.00°N, 103.00°EShiHuiGou — 38.00°N, 95.00°E

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The named rock units Dendrograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dendrograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dendrograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

527 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Dendrograptus, 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 57 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 content2

Picture of Dendrograptus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itDendrograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1858