Climacograptus

Searched as Climacograptus tridentatus maximus. The Paleobiology Database treats Climacograptus as the accepted name.

Climacograptus is an Ordovician genus of graptolites.

Climacograptus

James St. John (jsj1771) https://www.flickr.com/people/jsjgeology/ · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClimacograptidaePBDB
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 4.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Climacograptus 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

1 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

1 formation

Hanson Creek — 39.00°N, 116.00°W

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The named rock units Climacograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Climacograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Climacograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,232 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 340 sites for Climacograptus, and this reads 240 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Climacograptus

Credit
James St. John (jsj1771) https://www.flickr.com/people/jsjgeology/
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Climacograptus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itClimacograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1865)