Graphiadactyllis

Graphiadactyllis is an extinct genus of ostracod belonging to the family Quasillitidae and order Platycopida. Specimens have been found in Mississippian to Permian beds in North America, Europe, and Australia.

No picture of Graphiadactyllis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Graphiadactyllis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
QuasillitidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 87 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 133 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 41 of 133 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 92 of 133 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence357–354 Mya — about 3 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 2 occurrences351–347 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences347–344 Mya — about 11 occurrences344–340 Mya — about 14 occurrences340–337 Mya — about 4 occurrences337–333 Mya — about 2 occurrences333–330 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences330–327 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences327–323 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 34 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 54 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–278 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences351.9 Mya264.28 Mya361 Mya258 Mya

133 occurrences of Graphiadactyllis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

133 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

12 formations

Holmwood — 28.94°S, 115.54°EMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WBorden — 36.44°N, 88.06°WFayetteville — 36.08°N, 94.13°WFayetteville — 36.19°N, 94.09°WFayetteville — 36.00°N, 94.01°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WPamucak — 36.69°N, 30.46°EGrainger — 36.42°N, 84.31°WFlett — 63.88°N, 127.75°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WLittle Valley — 36.75°N, 82.25°WLercara — 37.63°N, 13.28°ESappington — 45.78°N, 111.81°W

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

Graphiadactyllis and its relatives

Permian

Where Graphiadactyllis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

388 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 95 sites for Graphiadactyllis, 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

12 references

Each of the 133 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 content0

No picture of Graphiadactyllis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Graphiadactyllis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

The description on this site

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.