Leptograptus flaccidus
No picture of Leptograptus flaccidus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Leptograptus flaccidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DicellograptusPBDB
- 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 600 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 449 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
5 occurrences of Leptograptus flaccidus 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
5 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Whitby Formation · Nottawasaga Group2
- Fjacka Shale Formation1
- Phi Kappa Formation1
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The named rock units Leptograptus flaccidus 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.
Leptograptus flaccidus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Leptograptus flaccidus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Climacograptus3 sites
- Orthograptus quadrimucronatus3 sites
- Dalmanella2 sites
- Diplograptus2 sites
- Flexicalymene meeki2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Geisonoceras2 sites
- Homotelus stegops2 sites
- Leptaena moniquensis2 sites
- Leptobolus insignis2 sites
- Paleschara2 sites
- Primitiella2 sites
- Pseudolingula curta2 sites
- Triarthrus rougensis2 sites
- Amphitryon murchisonii1 site
- Aparchites1 site
- Archinacella subcarinata1 site
- Aspidopora1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Climacograptus styloideus1 site
- Climacograptus typicalis1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Craniops1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Leptograptus flaccidus, 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
4 references- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario2
- Graptolites from the Matapédia and Honorat Groups of Gaspé1
- Ordovician and Silurian graptolite succession in the Trail Creek area, central Idaho-a graptolite zone reference section1
- The Tretaspis Series of the Kullatorp Core1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Leptograptus flaccidus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Leptograptus flaccidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptograptus flaccidus 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 itDicellograptus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1865)