Agetograptus
No picture of Agetograptus 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 Agetograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DimorphograptidaePBDB
- 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 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 440.5 Mya.
3 occurrences of Agetograptus 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician67%
- Silurian33%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Agetograptus 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.
Agetograptus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Agetograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Glyptograptus tamariscus2 sites
- Neodiplograptus sinuatus2 sites
- Rickardsograptus tcherskyi2 sites
- Rivagraptus bellulus2 sites
- Bivalvia1 site
- Eophacops1 site
- Glyptograptus1 site
- Korenograptus nikolayevi1 site
- Metaclimacograptus1 site
- Neodiplograptus1 site
- Normalograptus medius brevicaudatus1 site
- Normalograptus normalis1 site
- Petalolithus ankyratus1 site
- Pseudoglyptograptus barriei1 site
- Pseudoproetus1 site
- Pseudorthograptus1 site
- Rivagraptus kayi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Agetograptus, 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- Morphology and phylogeny of some Early Silurian ‘diplograptid’ genera from Cornwallis Island, Arctic Canada2
- Ancestral forms of Bohemian type Bivalvia from the lower Silurian of Siberia (Tungusskaja Syneclise, Russia)1
Each of the 3 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 Agetograptus 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 Agetograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Agetograptus 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 itDimorphograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Obut and Sobolevskaya 1968