Rhaphidograptus toernquisti
No picture of Rhaphidograptus toernquisti 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 Rhaphidograptus toernquisti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhaphidograptusPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Rhaphidograptus toernquisti 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
15 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Rhaphidograptus toernquisti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rhaphidograptus toernquisti and its relatives
SilurianWhere Rhaphidograptus toernquisti and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Atavograptus atavus4 sites
- Pernerograptus4 sites
- Coronograptus cyphus3 sites
- Diplograptus3 sites
- Glyptograptus3 sites
- Metaclimacograptus undulatus3 sites
- Monograptus3 sites
- Normalograptus rectangularis3 sites
- Aegiria garthensis2 sites
- Climacograptus2 sites
- Climacograptus scalaris2 sites
- Dimorphograptus2 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) duplicata2 sites
- Glyptograptus tamariscus2 sites
- Katastrophomena woodlandensis2 sites
- Leangella scissa2 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) haverfordensis2 sites
- Meifodia prima2 sites
- Mendacella mullockiensis2 sites
- Neodiplograptus magnus2 sites
- Normalograptus2 sites
- Orthograptus2 sites
- Paracraniops2 sites
- Plectatrypa (Plectatrypa)2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Rhaphidograptus toernquisti, 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- Uppermost Ordovician to lower Silurian Graptolite Biostratigraphy of the Wye Valley, Central Wales4
- 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 Stage3
- Llandoverian and Wenlockian graptolites from Bornholm3
- Early Llandovery brachiopods of Wales2
- A bibliographic index of British graptolites (Graptoloidea)1
- Thailand1
- The Lower Palaeozoic fossils of the Northern Shan States, Burma. With a section of Ordovician cystidea by F. A. Bather [q.v.]1
Each of the 15 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 Rhaphidograptus toernquisti 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 Rhaphidograptus toernquisti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhaphidograptus toernquisti 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 itRhaphidograptus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Elles and Wood 1906)