Sinograptus typicalis
No picture of Sinograptus typicalis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sinograptus typicalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SinograptusPBDB
- 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 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sinograptus typicalis 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
2 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
2 formations
- Upper Road River Formation · Road River Group1
- Ningkuo Formation1
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The named rock units Sinograptus typicalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sinograptus typicalis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sinograptus typicalis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Tylograptus intermedius2 sites
- <Sinograptid>1 site
- Amplexograptus1 site
- Cardiograptus1 site
- Cryptograptus1 site
- Didymograptus1 site
- Glossograptus1 site
- Graptolithina1 site
- Isograptus1 site
- Pseudoclimacograptus1 site
- Sinograptus rastritoides1 site
- Tylograptus globiformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sinograptus typicalis, 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
2 references- The Proximal Development and Thecal Structure of the Ordovician Graptolites Tylograptus and Sinograptus1
- On the occurrence of Parabrograptus and Sinograptus from the Middle Ordovician of western Canada1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Sinograptus typicalis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sinograptus typicalis, 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. Mu 1957