Graptolites

No picture of Graptolites was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Graptolites itself, so it was not used. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Graptolites firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GraptolitidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 425 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesDevonian427–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425 Mya413.02 Mya427.2 Mya410.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Graptolites 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

2 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

2 formations

Stuart Bay ""beds"" — 75.82°N, 98.40°WWilsonia Shales — 52.00°N, 3.00°W

Loading coastlines…

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

Graptolites and its relatives

Silurian

Where Graptolites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Graptolites, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 2 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No picture of Graptolites was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Graptolites itself, so it was not used.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Graptolites firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itGraptolitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McCoy 1874