Metabolograptus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeodiplograptidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Graptoloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At most 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 438.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 35 of 41 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 6 of 41 occurrencesSilurian453–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 8 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 8 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 8 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 8 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 2 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453.3 Mya438.1 Mya

41 occurrences of Metabolograptus 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

41 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

14 formations

Vinini — 39.87°N, 116.23°WTirekhtyakh — 63.97°N, 147.15°EKraluv Dvur — 49.87°N, 14.00°EKraluv Dvur — 50.06°N, 14.30°EKraluv Dvur — 49.92°N, 14.21°EVtorye Utyosy — 51.33°N, 83.02°EVtorye Utyosy — 51.43°N, 83.13°ELungmachi — 28.23°N, 109.10°ETekhten — 51.23°N, 84.74°ETekhten — 51.33°N, 83.02°ETanjung Dendang — 6.44°N, 99.88°EKalpintag — 40.71°N, 79.57°EDarraweit Guim Mudstone — 37.42°S, 144.98°ENanzheng — 35.00°N, 108.00°ECerig Gwynion Grits — 52.20°N, 3.43°WTekhten' — 51.46°N, 82.68°EMoyerokan — 67.34°N, 104.10°EKuanyinchiao — 31.86°N, 111.86°E

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The named rock units Metabolograptus 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.

Metabolograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Metabolograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Metabolograptus, 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

12 references

Each of the 41 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Metabolograptus 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 itNeodiplograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Obut and Sennikov 1985