Diplograptidae

Diplograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites.

Diplograptidae

C.D. Walcott · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
DiplograptinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Graptoloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 985 occurrencesOrdovician — about 925 of 985 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 60 of 985 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 985 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences484–481 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 2 occurrences477–474 Mya — about 3 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 3 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 12 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 23 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 25 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 24 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 42 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 62 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 67 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 60 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 100 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 165 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 166 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 132 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 49 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 19 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 12 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 8 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 6 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 1 occurrence421–418 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences477.1 Mya422.7 Mya488 Mya418 Mya

985 occurrences of Diplograptidae 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

985 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

193 formations

Vinini — 39.87°N, 116.23°WPhi Kappa — 43.85°N, 114.18°WWufeng — 33.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 109.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 109.00°EWufeng — 27.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 31.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 108.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 108.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 110.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 112.00°EWufeng — 30.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 31.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 115.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 118.00°EWufeng — 30.00°N, 117.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 119.00°EWufeng — 33.00°N, 106.00°EWufeng — 27.60°N, 105.42°EWufeng — 31.86°N, 111.86°ELeslie — 41.14°S, 172.59°ELeslie — 41.09°S, 172.54°EYinGan — 41.00°N, 79.00°EYinGan — 40.64°N, 79.50°ERoad River — 64.95°N, 141.04°WRoad River — 64.96°N, 141.21°WRoad River — 65.19°N, 141.32°WRoad River — 65.96°N, 141.20°WIrene Bay — 75.18°N, 93.78°WIrene Bay — 75.37°N, 95.77°WIrene Bay — 75.30°N, 95.13°WRoad River — 64.50°N, 130.00°WRoad River — 68.17°N, 137.00°WRoad River — 62.64°N, 124.97°WRoad River — 65.35°N, 133.50°WRoad River — 62.12°N, 126.68°WRoad River — 61.63°N, 125.73°WRoad River — 62.42°N, 127.25°WRoad River — 61.70°N, 125.55°WRoad River — 65.40°N, 137.38°WRoad River — 64.92°N, 139.58°WRoad River — 64.92°N, 140.99°WYinpingshan — 41.22°N, 87.57°EVaureal — 49.82°N, 64.35°WVaureal — 49.50°N, 63.00°WVaureal — 49.73°N, 62.95°WVaureal — 49.42°N, 62.25°WPeel — 41.14°S, 172.59°EPeel — 41.09°S, 172.54°EDescon — 55.63°N, 133.57°WDescon — 55.52°N, 133.30°WDescon — 55.50°N, 133.62°WUtica Shale — 42.91°N, 74.22°WUtica Shale — 42.84°N, 74.50°WUtica Shale — 43.08°N, 74.50°WUtica Shale — 43.24°N, 75.26°WBlack Cove — 50.36°N, 57.54°WMaravillas — 30.16°N, 103.31°WTianlingkou — 25.71°N, 110.48°EWhitby — 45.50°N, 81.00°WWhitby — 43.88°N, 78.86°WWhitby — 44.53°N, 80.38°WFjacka Shale — 58.00°N, 15.00°EFjacka Shale — 58.00°N, 12.00°EFjacka Shale — 60.00°N, 16.00°EKarasa — 52.22°N, 87.01°EKarasa — 52.02°N, 87.12°EKarasa — 52.04°N, 87.20°EBugryshikha — 51.28°N, 82.79°EBugryshikha — 51.34°N, 83.05°EDalby — 58.00°N, 14.00°EDalby — 58.00°N, 12.00°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°ENingguo — 29.00°N, 115.00°ENingguo — 28.00°N, 118.00°ENingguo — 30.00°N, 120.00°ENingguo — 30.00°N, 119.00°ENingguo — 29.00°N, 119.00°EWhite Head — 48.47°N, 64.32°WWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 46.18°N, 59.82°WWhite Head — 49.00°N, 64.00°W

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The named rock units Diplograptidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 169 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 109 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diplograptidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Diplograptidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,463 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 494 sites for Diplograptidae, 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

182 references

Each of the 985 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. 170 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Diplograptidae

Credit
C.D. Walcott
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diplograptidae 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.