Diplacanthograptus dorotheus
No picture of Diplacanthograptus dorotheus 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 Diplacanthograptus dorotheus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiplacanthograptusPBDB
- 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 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Diplacanthograptus dorotheus 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
4 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Diplacanthograptus dorotheus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diplacanthograptus dorotheus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Diplacanthograptus dorotheus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Dicellograptus2 sites
- Normalograptus2 sites
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Chonetoidea sp.1 site
- Climacograptus1 site
- Climacograptus typicalis1 site
- Kinnekullea gaia1 site
- Laterophores1 site
- Leptellina1 site
- Ordovizona1 site
- Orthids indet.1 site
- Orthoceras1 site
- Orthograptus1 site
- Rectograptus amplexicaulis1 site
- Rectograptus truncatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Diplacanthograptus dorotheus, 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
3 references- Upper Ordovician graptolites from the Brabant Massif, Belgium2
- Late Ordovician (Katian) Graptolites and Shelly Fauna from the Phu Ngu Formation, North-East Vietnam1
- Graptolites from the Upper Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Anticosti Island and the position of the Ordovician-Silurian boundary1
Each of the 4 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 Diplacanthograptus dorotheus 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 Diplacanthograptus dorotheus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diplacanthograptus dorotheus 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 itDiplacanthograptus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Riva 1976)