Dicellograptus

Dicellograptus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
DicranograptidaePBDB
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 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 469.4 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 348 occurrencesOrdovician — about 348 of 348 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 348 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 0.6 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 4 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 4 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 4 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 4 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 8 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 14 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 28 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 22 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 19 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 20 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 25 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 29 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 47 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 39 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 39 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 24 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 10 occurrences469.4 Mya445.2 Mya487.7 Mya442.2 Mya

348 occurrences of Dicellograptus 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

348 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

79 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 — 32.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 109.00°EWufeng — 27.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 31.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 108.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 108.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 106.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 110.00°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 — 30.00°N, 116.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 119.00°EWufeng — 33.00°N, 106.00°EWufeng — 30.00°N, 103.00°EWufeng — 27.60°N, 105.42°EVinini — 39.87°N, 116.23°WPeel — 41.14°S, 172.59°EPeel — 41.09°S, 172.54°ERoad River — 62.64°N, 124.97°WRoad River — 65.35°N, 133.50°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°WHule — 29.00°N, 115.00°EHule — 28.00°N, 118.00°EHule — 29.00°N, 119.00°EHule — 31.00°N, 120.00°EFjacka 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°ERoad River — 64.95°N, 141.04°WRoad River — 65.02°N, 141.21°WPalmetto — 37.92°N, 117.91°WPalmetto — 37.97°N, 117.96°WPingliang — 35.00°N, 107.00°EPingliang — 37.00°N, 107.00°EPingliang — 36.00°N, 107.00°ELeslie — 41.09°S, 172.54°EBugryshikha — 51.28°N, 82.79°EBugryshikha — 51.34°N, 83.05°ETianlingkou — 25.71°N, 110.48°EVenstop — 60.00°N, 11.00°EVenstop — 58.99°N, 9.75°EKraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°EYinGan — 41.00°N, 79.00°EYinGan — 40.64°N, 79.50°EDouglas — 40.69°S, 172.49°EHulo — 28.87°N, 118.49°EKhankhara — 51.07°N, 84.94°EKhankhara — 51.26°N, 82.81°EKhankhara — 51.34°N, 83.05°ETekhten — 51.23°N, 84.74°ETekhten — 51.44°N, 83.15°ETekhten — 51.33°N, 83.02°EJerrestad Shale — 57.78°N, 14.18°EJerrestad Shale — 55.54°N, 14.29°EBarrel Spring — 36.90°N, 118.06°WMalongulli — 33.55°S, 148.85°EMalongulli — 34.00°S, 148.00°EChangkengshui — 22.00°N, 112.00°EChangkengshui — 24.00°N, 114.00°E

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The named rock units Dicellograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 55 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dicellograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dicellograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

946 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 201 sites for Dicellograptus, 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

87 references

Each of the 348 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. 75 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 Dicellograptus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Hopkinson 1871