Ptilograptus

Ptilograptus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DendrograptidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Dendroidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dendroidea
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dendroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 478.8 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 10 of 11 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 11 occurrencesSilurian480–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–448 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468 Mya438.6 Mya479.7 Mya432 Mya

11 occurrences of Ptilograptus 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

11 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

9 formations

Vinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDeepkill Shale — 42.65°N, 73.76°WDawan — 27.00°N, 101.00°EYerba Loca — 30.00°S, 69.00°WShiwuzi — 30.72°N, 111.28°EMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WShumardia Limestone — 46.81°N, 71.18°WKraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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The named rock units Ptilograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ptilograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ptilograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

381 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Ptilograptus, 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

8 references

Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Ptilograptus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Ptilograptus 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 itDendrograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.