Testograptus testis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TestograptusPBDB
- 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 24 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Testograptus testis 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- 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
6 formations
- Xistos com Nodulos Formation1
- Motol Formation1
- Kurrajong Park Formation1
- Read Bay Formation1
- Ulah Formation1
- Riga Formation1
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The named rock units Testograptus testis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Testograptus testis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Testograptus testis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Cyrtograptus4 sites
- Monograptus4 sites
- Pristiograptus3 sites
- Monograptus priodon2 sites
- Pristiograptus dubius2 sites
- Acanthograptus1 site
- Aulacatrypa1 site
- Aulacopleura koninckii1 site
- Bohemoharpes naumanni1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Butovicella migrans1 site
- Ceratocephala1 site
- Cheirurus (Cheirurus) insignis1 site
- Conchidium1 site
- Coremagraptus1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyathaspis1 site
- Cyphoproetus1 site
- Decoroproetus (Decoroproetus)1 site
- Decoroproetus decorus1 site
- Deiphon1 site
- Diagoniella1 site
- Dicranopeltis scabra1 site
- Dictyonema1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Testograptus testis, 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- Graptolite faunas and monaxonid demosponges of the Cyrtograptus lundgreni event (Late Wenlock, Silurian) interval from the Orange district, New South Wales1
- Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids1
- First articulated Silurian sponges from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal)1
- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia1
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China1
- New data on the stratigraphy and correlation of the South - East Baltic Wenlockian and Ludlovian (Silurian)1
- The brachiopods of the Lower Devonian Maradana Shale, New South Wales1
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
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No picture of Testograptus testis 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 Testograptus testis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Testograptus testis 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 itTestograptus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1859)