Acanthograptus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcanthograptidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Dendroidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dendroidea
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dendroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At least 106 million years on record.

The record covers at least 488.9 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 493.5 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 29 occurrencesOrdovician — about 22 of 29 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 29 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 4 of 29 occurrencesDevonian496–492 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences492–488 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences488–483 Mya — about 4 occurrences483–479 Mya — about 5 occurrences479–475 Mya — about 4 occurrences475–471 Mya — about 3 occurrences471–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–445 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences445–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–424 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences420–416 Mya — about 2 occurrences416–412 Mya — about 1 occurrence382–378 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences378–374 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences374–370 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488.9 Mya382.31 Mya496 Mya370 Mya

29 occurrences of Acanthograptus 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

29 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

20 formations

Fengxiang — 33.00°N, 111.00°EFengxiang — 29.00°N, 109.00°EFengxiang — 30.00°N, 111.00°EFengxiang — 31.00°N, 111.00°EFengxiang — 32.00°N, 118.00°EHunghuayuan — 30.86°N, 111.37°ELochkov — 49.50°N, 14.33°ELochkov — 49.93°N, 14.18°EYeli — 40.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 37.00°N, 114.00°EDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WHonghuayuan — 33.00°N, 111.00°ETongzi — 29.00°N, 109.00°EDawan — 31.00°N, 111.00°EXiaqiaojia — 26.00°N, 102.00°EYinzhupu — 29.00°N, 115.00°ECaparo — 8.00°N, 71.00°WLochkow — 49.93°N, 14.18°EZhouqu — 34.00°N, 103.00°EFloresta-Labateca — 5.85°N, 72.88°WFenhsiang — 30.85°N, 111.38°EFenxiang — 30.70°N, 111.28°EFombuena — 41.15°N, 1.20°WAdila — 56.55°N, 27.73°ESarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°EChasmops Limestone — 58.77°N, 17.42°E

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The named rock units Acanthograptus 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.

Acanthograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Acanthograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

578 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Acanthograptus, 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

22 references

Each of the 29 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Acanthograptus 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 Acanthograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Acanthograptus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.