Pleurograptus linearis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PleurograptusPBDB
- 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 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pleurograptus linearis 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
- Phi Kappa Formation · Valmy Group2
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The named rock units Pleurograptus linearis 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.
Pleurograptus linearis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pleurograptus linearis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Climacograptus1 site
- Climacograptus styloideus1 site
- Dicellograptus1 site
- Diplacanthograptus caudatus1 site
- Leptograptus flaccidus macer1 site
- Orthograptus calcaratus basilicus1 site
- Orthograptus truncatus intermedius1 site
- Orthograptus truncatus pauperatus1 site
- Paraclimacograptus innotatus1 site
- Rectograptus truncatus1 site
- Styracograptus tubuliferus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pleurograptus linearis, 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- Ordovician and Silurian graptolite succession in the Trail Creek area, central Idaho-a graptolite zone reference section1
- Ordovician (Upper Caradocian) Graptolites from Idaho and Nevada1
- Om de Chasmopskalken och Trinicleusskiffern motsvarande bildningarne I Skane1
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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pleurograptus linearis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pleurograptus linearis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pleurograptus linearis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itPleurograptus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carruthers 1858)