Pseudorthograptus
No picture of Pseudorthograptus 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 Pseudorthograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GraptoloideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Graptoloidea
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Graptoloidea
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Graptoloidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Graptolithina
Time the record covers
At least 4.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 432.9 Mya.
5 occurrences of Pseudorthograptus 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
5 occurrences- Ordovician20%
- Silurian80%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Pseudorthograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudorthograptus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Pseudorthograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Coronograptus cyphus2 sites
- Glyptograptus tamariscus2 sites
- Pernerograptus2 sites
- Acernaspis1 site
- Aegiria1 site
- Agetograptus spiniferus1 site
- Antirhynchonella1 site
- Atrypina1 site
- Atrypoidea1 site
- Aulacopleura1 site
- Balizoma1 site
- Bleshidium1 site
- Bohemoharpes1 site
- Bumastus1 site
- Ceratocephala1 site
- Comatopoma1 site
- Coolinia pecten1 site
- Cornuproetus1 site
- Cyphoproetus1 site
- Decoroproetus1 site
- Demirastrites1 site
- Diacalymene1 site
- Dicoelosia osloensis1 site
- Dicoelosia verneuiliana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pseudorthograptus, 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
4 references- Morphology and phylogeny of some Early Silurian ‘diplograptid’ genera from Cornwallis Island, Arctic Canada2
- Integrated stratigraphical study of the Rhuddanian-Aeronian (Llandovery, Silurian) boundary succession in the Rheidol Gorge, Wales: a proposed Global Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the Aeronian Stage1
- Ordovician-Silurian biostratigraphy and paleogeography of the Gorny Altai1
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)1
Each of the 5 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 Pseudorthograptus 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 Pseudorthograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudorthograptus 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 itGraptoloidea through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.