Metabolograptus parvulus
No picture of Metabolograptus parvulus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 parvulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetabolograptusPBDB
- 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 4.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.2 Mya and 440.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Metabolograptus parvulus 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician33%
- Silurian67%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Metabolograptus parvulus 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 parvulus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Metabolograptus parvulus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Avitograptus avitus1 site
- Korenograptus1 site
- Normalograptus ajjeri1 site
- Paramplexograptus1 site
- Paramplexograptus madernii1 site
- Persculptograptus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Metabolograptus parvulus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Uppermost Ordovician to lower Silurian Graptolite Biostratigraphy of the Wye Valley, Central Wales2
- Earliest Silurian graptolites from Kalpin, western Tarim, Xinjiang, China1
Each of the 3 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.
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No picture of Metabolograptus parvulus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 parvulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metabolograptus parvulus 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 itMetabolograptus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lapworth 1900)