Graticula

Graticula, formerly incorrectly named Craticula, is a genus of Palaeozoic coralline alga. They form the framework of reef rocks in the Silurian of Gotland, from the Högklint, Slite and Halla groups.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CorallinalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Silurian — about 3 of 4 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesDevonian433–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430.6 Mya419.62 Mya433.4 Mya412.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Graticula 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

4 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

3 formations

Hogklint — 57.72°N, 18.40°ETofta — 57.98°N, 19.12°EElmside — 34.83°S, 148.92°E

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The named rock units Graticula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Graticula and its relatives

Silurian

Where Graticula and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

32 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Graticula, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Graticula 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 Graticula, 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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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.