Cyclograptus
No picture of Cyclograptus 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 Cyclograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyclograptidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Graptolithina
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Graptolithina
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Graptolithina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Graptolithina
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 430.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cyclograptus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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 Cyclograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclograptus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Cyclograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Bumastus1 site
- Cheirurus (Cheirurus) insignis1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Cyrtia1 site
- Cyrtograptus1 site
- Decoroproetus decorus1 site
- Diacalymene1 site
- Dicranopeltis scabra1 site
- Dubioleptaena expulsa1 site
- Giraldibella1 site
- Leonaspis1 site
- Leptaena amelia1 site
- Mezounia1 site
- Miraspis mira1 site
- Monoclimacis1 site
- Monograptus1 site
- Monograptus priodon1 site
- Niorhynx1 site
- Plectograptus1 site
- Proteorthis1 site
- Rodonograptus asteriscus1 site
- Staurocephalus murchisoni1 site
- Streptis grayii1 site
- Strophochonetes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cyclograptus, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cyclograptus 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 Cyclograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyclograptus 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 itCyclograptidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.