Mastigograptus

Mastigograptus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MastigograptidaePBDB
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 67 million years on record.

The record covers at least 494.2 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 23 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 17 of 23 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 23 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 23 occurrences499–496 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences496–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences491–488 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences488–485 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 6 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 5 occurrences448–445 Mya — about 3 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–421 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences494.2 Mya426.7 Mya499 Mya418 Mya

23 occurrences of Mastigograptus 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

23 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

15 formations

Kope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WUtica Shale — 43.21°N, 75.46°WUtica Shale — 43.24°N, 75.26°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHenryhouse — 34.34°N, 97.14°WDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WWhitby — 44.53°N, 80.38°WGeorgian Bay — 43.67°N, 79.42°WPeel — 41.14°S, 172.59°EScopus — 40.81°S, 145.02°ESakiai — 55.55°N, 24.10°EÄrina — 59.18°N, 26.20°ESt. Lawrence — 43.33°N, 90.39°W

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The named rock units Mastigograptus 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.

Mastigograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Mastigograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

574 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Mastigograptus, 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

14 references

Each of the 23 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. 2 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 Mastigograptus

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Mastigograptus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMastigograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ruedemann 1908