Orthograptus fastigatus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthograptusPBDB
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 6.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 14 of 14 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 14 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450.1 Mya442.6 Mya

14 occurrences of Orthograptus fastigatus 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

14 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

2 formations

Irene Bay — 75.18°N, 93.78°WIrene Bay — 75.37°N, 95.77°WIrene Bay — 75.30°N, 95.13°WMaravillas — 30.16°N, 103.31°W

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The named rock units Orthograptus fastigatus 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.

Orthograptus fastigatus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Orthograptus fastigatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Orthograptus fastigatus, 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

3 references

Each of the 14 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Orthograptus fastigatus 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 itOrthograptus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davies 1929)