Rectograptus

Rectograptus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiplograptidaePBDB
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 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 452.3 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 126 of 126 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 126 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 5 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 10 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 11 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 16 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 15 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 13 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 13 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 13 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 9 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 8 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 3 occurrences452.3 Mya445.2 Mya471.9 Mya442.5 Mya

126 occurrences of Rectograptus 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

126 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

38 formations

Phi Kappa — 43.85°N, 114.18°WVinini — 39.87°N, 116.23°WYinpingshan — 41.22°N, 87.57°ETianlingkou — 25.71°N, 110.48°EYingan — 40.64°N, 79.50°EFjacka Shale — 58.00°N, 12.00°EMaquoketa — 43.61°N, 92.43°WMaquoketa — 43.28°N, 91.37°WZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°EVaureal — 49.73°N, 62.95°WVaureal — 49.50°N, 63.00°WBancos Mixtos — 39.00°N, 4.00°WBancos Mixtos — 38.78°N, 4.83°WXingkailing — 29.28°N, 115.08°EMaravillas — 30.16°N, 103.31°WDulankara — 43.75°N, 75.25°EDulankara — 44.71°N, 75.35°EPhu Ngu — 22.01°N, 106.09°EAkdombak — 48.52°N, 78.87°EVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EScales — 42.48°N, 90.87°WMacasty — 49.50°N, 63.00°WEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WRoad River — 65.35°N, 133.50°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.67°WCollingwood — 46.35°N, 85.52°WGroos Quarry — 46.35°N, 85.52°W

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The named rock units Rectograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rectograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rectograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

466 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Rectograptus, 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

33 references

Each of the 126 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. 21 further references are not listed. 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 Rectograptus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDiplograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pribyl 1949