Medusaegraptus

Medusagraptus is a genus of dasycladalean green alga.

Medusaegraptus

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SeletonellaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 7 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 6 of 7 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 7 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences449.9 Mya422.7 Mya453.5 Mya419 Mya

7 occurrences of Medusaegraptus 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

7 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

5 formations

Syracuse — 43.05°N, 76.15°WSyracuse — 43.05°N, 76.00°WSyracuse — 43.05°N, 76.15°WFiddlers Green — 42.85°N, 78.80°WAkron — 42.85°N, 78.80°WBertie — 42.88°N, 78.88°WVarlyginskaya — 58.43°N, 40.94°E

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

Medusaegraptus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Medusaegraptus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

133 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Medusaegraptus, 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

5 references

Each of the 7 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

Picture of Medusaegraptus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Medusaegraptus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ruedemann 1925