Cryptograptus antennarius
No picture of Cryptograptus antennarius 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 Cryptograptus antennarius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CryptograptusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cryptograptus
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Cryptograptus
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cryptograptus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Graptolithina
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cryptograptus antennarius 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cryptograptus antennarius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cryptograptus antennarius and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cryptograptus antennarius and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Levisograptus austrodentatus2 sites
- Ptilograptus2 sites
- Climacograptus1 site
- Dendrograptus gracilis1 site
- Didymograptus caduceus caduceus n. sp. n. ssp.1 site
- Didymograptus nicholsoni1 site
- Levisograptus dentatus1 site
- Loganograptus aff. logani pertenuis1 site
- Loganograptus logani cf. reliquus1 site
- Paraglossograptus tentaculatus1 site
- Parisograptus caduceus1 site
- Tetragraptus1 site
- Tetragraptus amii1 site
- Tristichograptus ensiformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cryptograptus antennarius, 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- Nuevos hallazgos de graptolitos en la Formacion Yerba Loca y su implicancia estratigrafica, Precordillera de San Juan Argentina1
- Appendix - Note on type locality of Isograptus caduceus1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cryptograptus antennarius 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 Cryptograptus antennarius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cryptograptus antennarius 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCryptograptus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1865)