Reteograptus geinitzianus
No picture of Reteograptus geinitzianus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Reteograptus geinitzianus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ReteograptusPBDB
- 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 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Reteograptus geinitzianus 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
16 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
9 formations
- Peel Formation · Golden Bay Group3
- Road River Formation3
- Phi Kappa Formation2
- Glenogle Formation1
- Douglas Formation · Golden Bay Group1
- Leslie Formation · Aorere Group1
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The named rock units Reteograptus geinitzianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Reteograptus geinitzianus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Reteograptus geinitzianus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Dicellograptus8 sites
- Climacograptus6 sites
- Diplograptus6 sites
- Cryptograptus schaeferi4 sites
- Dicellograptus sextans4 sites
- Didymograptus4 sites
- Glossograptus hincksii4 sites
- Glyptograptus4 sites
- Hustedograptus teretiusculus4 sites
- Amplexograptus3 sites
- Cryptograptus tricornis3 sites
- Glossograptus3 sites
- Nicholsonograptus fasciculatus3 sites
- Orthograptus3 sites
- Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi3 sites
- Apatomorpha altaica2 sites
- Azygograptus novozealandicus2 sites
- Calyptaulax2 sites
- Climacograptus bicornis tridentatus2 sites
- Dicellograptus caduceus2 sites
- Dicellograptus divaricatus2 sites
- Dicellograptus sextans exilis2 sites
- Dichograptidae2 sites
- Dicranograptus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Reteograptus geinitzianus, 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
7 references- Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian biostratigraphy of east-central Alaska4
- Graptolites of Cobb River-Mount Arthur Area, North-West Nelson, New Zealand4
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai2
- Ordovician and Silurian graptolite succession in the Trail Creek area, central Idaho-a graptolite zone reference section2
- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska2
- Ordovician Geology and Graptolite faunas of the Aorangi Mine area, North-west Nelson, New Zealand1
- On the occurrence of Parabrograptus and Sinograptus from the Middle Ordovician of western Canada1
Each of the 16 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 Reteograptus geinitzianus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Reteograptus geinitzianus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1859