Rivagraptus

No picture of Rivagraptus 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 Rivagraptus, 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 438.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 7 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 7 occurrencesSilurian453–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445.2 Mya440.5 Mya453.3 Mya438.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Rivagraptus 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

7 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

2 formations

Cape Phillips — 75.45°N, 94.33°WCape Phillips — 75.14°N, 93.62°WNiuchang — 27.70°N, 107.40°E

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

Rivagraptus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Rivagraptus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Rivagraptus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 7 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 content0

No picture of Rivagraptus 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 Rivagraptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rivagraptus 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.