Baltograptus minutus
No picture of Baltograptus minutus 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 Baltograptus minutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BaltograptusPBDB
- 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 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Baltograptus minutus 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
5 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Baltograptus minutus 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.
Baltograptus minutus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Baltograptus minutus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Baltograptus deflexus2 sites
- Didymograptus filiformis2 sites
- Tetragraptus quadribrachiatus2 sites
- Acrograptus gracilis1 site
- Baltograptus kurcki1 site
- Baltograptus vacillans1 site
- Corymbograptus vfractus tullbergi1 site
- Coxiconchia sellaensis1 site
- Desmorthis segnis1 site
- Didymograptellus nitidus1 site
- Didymograptus holmi1 site
- Didymograptus suecicus1 site
- Didymograptus turgidus1 site
- Glyptorthis imbrex1 site
- Graptolithus constrictus1 site
- Graptolithus octobrachiatus1 site
- Graptolithus similis1 site
- Kinnegraptus1 site
- Natasia boliviensis1 site
- Pendeograptus pendens1 site
- Phyllograptus anna1 site
- Pircanchaspis rinconensis1 site
- Pseudophyllograptus densus1 site
- Redonia riojana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Baltograptus minutus, 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
5 references- Graptolitos del noroeste argentino de la “Colección Loss”: taxonomía, edad y correlación1
- Lower Ordovician bivalves from southern Bolivia: paleobiogeographic affinities1
- Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy and palaeontology, Karadere–Zirze area, Pontus Mountains, northern Turkey1
- A possible agnathan plate from the lower Arenig (Lower Ordovician) of South Bolivia1
- La fauna de graptolitos de la Formación Acoite, en el borde occidental de la Cordillera Oriental Argentina. Análisis bioestratigráfico1
Each of the 5 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 Baltograptus minutus 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 Baltograptus minutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Baltograptus minutus 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 itBaltograptus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Törnquist 1879)