Diversograptus

Eksp. · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
- MonograptidaePBDB
- 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 24 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Diversograptus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Diversograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diversograptus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Diversograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Monograptus6 sites
- Monograptus priodon5 sites
- Pristiograptus3 sites
- Acanthograptus2 sites
- Coremagraptus2 sites
- Cyrtograptus2 sites
- Dictyonema2 sites
- Monoclimacis2 sites
- Petalolithus2 sites
- Pseudoplegmatograptus2 sites
- Pseudoretiolites2 sites
- Rastrites2 sites
- Barrandeograptus1 site
- Cephalograptus1 site
- Climacograptus scalaris1 site
- Glyptograptus1 site
- Glyptograptus incertus1 site
- Lituigraptus convolutus1 site
- Oktavites spiralis1 site
- Retiolites1 site
- Retiolites (Pseudoretiolites)1 site
- Retiolites geinitzianus1 site
- Spirograptus1 site
- Stomatograptus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Diversograptus, 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
5 references- On the Graptolite Schists Formation (Silurian–Lower Devonian) in the Carpatho–Balkanides of eastern Serbia3
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China3
- Llandoverian and Wenlockian graptolites from Bornholm2
- Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian biostratigraphy of east-central Alaska1
- Reconnaissance of the Ordovician and Silurian rocks of Northern Yukon Territory1
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
Media content1

Picture of Diversograptus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Eksp.
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Diversograptus 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 itMonograptidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.