Etagraptus
No picture of Etagraptus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Etagraptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SigmagraptidaePBDB
- 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 44 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Etagraptus 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
11 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
4 formations
- Lower Road River Formation · Road River Group4
- Aorangi Mine Formation3
- Rollston Range Formation1
- Tuloi Formation1
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The named rock units Etagraptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Etagraptus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Etagraptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Didymograptus5 sites
- Pendeograptus pendens4 sites
- Pseudisograptus4 sites
- Tetragraptus4 sites
- Didymograptus extensus3 sites
- Goniograptus3 sites
- Goniograptus macer3 sites
- Isograptus caduceus imitatus3 sites
- Isograptus victoriae maximodivergens3 sites
- Pseudisograptus hastatus3 sites
- Tetragraptus amii3 sites
- Tetragraptus bigsbyi3 sites
- Tetragraptus quadribrachiatus3 sites
- Baltograptus deflexus2 sites
- Didymograptellus nitidus2 sites
- Didymograptus ensjoensis2 sites
- Didymograptus latus2 sites
- Expansograptus2 sites
- Fucoides serra2 sites
- Harrisgraptus eocaduceus2 sites
- Isograptus2 sites
- Phyllograptus2 sites
- Tristichograptus ensiformis2 sites
- Tshallograptus fruticosus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Etagraptus, 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
6 references- The sequence and correlation of Early Ordovician (Arenig) graptolite faunas in the Richardson Trough and Misty Creek Embayment, Yukon Territory and District of Mackenzie, Canada4
- Ordovician Geology and Graptolite faunas of the Aorangi Mine area, North-west Nelson, New Zealand3
- Graptolitos del noroeste argentino de la “Colección Loss”: taxonomía, edad y correlación1
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai1
- Early Ordovician faunas from the Mount Windsor Subrovince, northeastern Queensland1
- Stratigraphic table of northwestern region of China: XinJiang Province part1
Each of the 11 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 Etagraptus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Etagraptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Etagraptus 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 itSigmagraptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ruedemann 1904