Glyptograptus

Glyptograptus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PetalolithinaePBDB
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 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 470.3 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 274 occurrencesOrdovician — about 202 of 274 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 72 of 274 occurrencesSilurian488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 3 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 6 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 6 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 7 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 8 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 8 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 7 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 6 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 5 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 23 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 30 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 14 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 10 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 10 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 11 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 13 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 13 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 12 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 11 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 24 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 21 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 11 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 6 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 6 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 3 occurrences470.3 Mya438.6 Mya488 Mya432 Mya

274 occurrences of Glyptograptus 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

274 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

112 formations

Phi Kappa — 43.85°N, 114.18°WNingguo — 29.00°N, 115.00°ENingguo — 28.00°N, 118.00°ENingguo — 30.00°N, 120.00°ENingguo — 30.00°N, 119.00°ENingguo — 29.00°N, 119.00°ERoad River — 65.02°N, 141.21°WRoad River — 65.19°N, 141.32°WRoad River — 64.95°N, 141.04°WRoad River — 65.96°N, 141.20°WDescon — 55.63°N, 133.57°WDescon — 55.52°N, 133.30°WDescon — 55.50°N, 133.62°WWufeng — 29.00°N, 109.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 30.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 115.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 118.00°EWufeng — 30.00°N, 117.00°EMeitan — 28.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 29.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 27.00°N, 105.00°EMeitan — 29.00°N, 109.00°EMeitan — 28.00°N, 105.00°EHule — 29.00°N, 115.00°EHule — 28.00°N, 118.00°EHule — 29.00°N, 119.00°EHule — 31.00°N, 120.00°EHule — 30.00°N, 120.00°EVaureal — 49.73°N, 62.95°WVaureal — 49.50°N, 63.00°WSakmara — 51.50°N, 58.03°ERoad River — 68.17°N, 137.00°WRoad River — 65.35°N, 133.50°WRoad River — 65.38°N, 140.30°WRoad River — 64.92°N, 140.99°WRoad River — 65.40°N, 137.38°WFurudal — 60.91°N, 15.02°EFurudal — 61.05°N, 15.20°EFurudal — 60.92°N, 15.09°ETekhten — 51.23°N, 84.74°ETekhten — 51.44°N, 83.15°ETekhten — 51.33°N, 83.02°EDawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 29.00°N, 109.00°EDawan — 31.00°N, 111.00°EMiaopo — 33.00°N, 111.00°EMiaopo — 32.00°N, 108.00°EMiaopo — 31.00°N, 111.00°EMiaopo — 32.00°N, 118.00°EIrene Bay — 75.30°N, 95.13°WIrene Bay — 74.98°N, 95.88°WCape Phillips — 75.45°N, 94.33°WCape Phillips — 78.53°N, 83.32°WElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EShizipu — 28.00°N, 107.00°EShizipu — 26.00°N, 108.00°EShizipu — 28.00°N, 109.00°EPingliang — 35.00°N, 107.00°EPingliang — 37.00°N, 107.00°EPingliang — 36.00°N, 107.00°ESaErGan — 40.10°N, 80.33°EWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 46.18°N, 59.82°WNavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WKarasa — 51.98°N, 87.14°EVtorye Utyosy — 51.33°N, 83.02°EVtorye Utyosy — 51.43°N, 83.13°E

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The named rock units Glyptograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 88 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glyptograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Glyptograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,105 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 226 sites for Glyptograptus, 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

96 references

Each of the 274 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. 84 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 Glyptograptus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
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. (Lapworth 1873)