Diplacanthograptus caudatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiplacanthograptusPBDB
- 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 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Diplacanthograptus caudatus 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
10 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
- Phi Kappa Formation · Valmy Group5
- Yingan Formation4
- Jacks Peak Formation · Valmy Group1
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The named rock units Diplacanthograptus caudatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diplacanthograptus caudatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Diplacanthograptus caudatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Amplexograptus praetypicalis4 sites
- Dicellograptus4 sites
- Taklamakania tarimensis4 sites
- Ampyxinella rotundata3 sites
- Amplexograptus2 sites
- Climacograptus (Climacograptus)2 sites
- Orthograptus quadrimucronatus2 sites
- Rectograptus amplexicaulis2 sites
- Styracograptus tubuliferus2 sites
- Climacograptus1 site
- Climacograptus nevadensis1 site
- Diplacanthograptus spiniferus1 site
- Leptograptus flaccidus macer1 site
- Lisogorites mistus1 site
- Orthograptus calcaratus basilicus1 site
- Orthograptus truncatus cf. intermedius1 site
- Orthograptus truncatus intermedius1 site
- Orthograptus truncatus pauperatus1 site
- Orthoretiolites hami robustus1 site
- Paraclimacograptus innotatus1 site
- Pleurograptus linearis1 site
- Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi1 site
- Rectograptus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Diplacanthograptus caudatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Graptolites from the Qilang and Yingan formations (Caradoc, Ordovician) of Kalpin, western Tarim, Xinjiang, China4
- Ordovician and Silurian graptolite succession in the Trail Creek area, central Idaho-a graptolite zone reference section4
- Ordovician (Upper Caradocian) Graptolites from Idaho and Nevada2
Each of the 10 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 Diplacanthograptus caudatus 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 Diplacanthograptus caudatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diplacanthograptus caudatus 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 itDiplacanthograptus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lapworth 1876)