Expansograptus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DidymograptidaePBDB
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 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 482.9 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 63 of 63 occurrencesOrdovician483–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 3 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 3 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 3 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 3 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 8 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 9 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 4 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471.3 Mya – 468 Mya483.4 Mya457.7 Mya

63 occurrences of Expansograptus 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

63 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

14 formations

Voskresenka — 51.17°N, 82.05°EVoskresenka — 51.61°N, 82.94°EVoskresenka — 51.62°N, 82.62°ETuloi — 52.22°N, 87.01°ETuloi — 52.02°N, 87.12°ELower Road River — 65.88°N, 135.67°WAcoite — 23.08°S, 65.70°WAcoite — 23.67°S, 65.69°WAcoite — 22.99°S, 65.70°WLa Alumbrera — 28.23°S, 67.70°WKarasa — 52.22°N, 87.01°EAguada de la Perdiz — 23.63°S, 67.27°WNavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WVillar del Salz — 40.93°N, 2.05°WLa Bastida Shales — 41.00°N, 6.00°WDawan — 30.86°N, 110.37°EAbercrombie — 35.77°S, 147.09°EDmitrovskaya — 56.29°N, 37.47°ETastau — 44.51°N, 70.33°E

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The named rock units Expansograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Expansograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Expansograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

247 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Expansograptus, 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

14 references

Each of the 63 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. 2 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

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

No 3D scan of Expansograptus 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 itDidymograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bouček and Přibyl 1953)