Aspidograptus

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 79 million years on record.

The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 504.5 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 9 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 5 of 9 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 9 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 9 occurrencesDevonian506–503 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences503–500 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences500–497 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences497–494 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences487–484 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences484–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences418–414 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences414–411 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences499.5 Mya419.62 Mya506 Mya411 Mya

9 occurrences of Aspidograptus 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

9 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

6 formations

Volcancito — 29.00°S, 68.00°WLochkov — 49.50°N, 14.33°EYinzhupu — 29.00°N, 115.00°EYehLi — 41.00°N, 123.00°EFombuena — 41.15°N, 1.20°WScopus — 40.81°S, 145.02°E

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The named rock units Aspidograptus 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.

Aspidograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Aspidograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

154 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Aspidograptus, 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

Each of the 9 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 Aspidograptus 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 Aspidograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aspidograptus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDendrograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.