Expansograptus hirundo
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ExpansograptusPBDB
- 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 25 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 482.9 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Expansograptus hirundo 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
5 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
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The named rock units Expansograptus hirundo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Expansograptus hirundo and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Expansograptus hirundo and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Acrograptus3 sites
- Isograptus3 sites
- Pseudotrigonograptus3 sites
- Corymbograptus2 sites
- Isograptus gibberulus2 sites
- Levisograptus sinodentatus2 sites
- Parisograptus caduceus2 sites
- Phyllograptus anna2 sites
- Pseudotrigonograptus ensiformis2 sites
- Undulograptus2 sites
- Amplexograptus1 site
- Antigonambonites planus1 site
- Archaeorthis altaica1 site
- Asaphus (Asaphus) broggeri1 site
- Asaphus (Asaphus) lepidurus1 site
- Callograptus1 site
- Calyptaulax1 site
- Cardiograptus1 site
- Climacograptus1 site
- Didymograptus1 site
- Eoglyptograptus1 site
- Eorobergia1 site
- Glossograptus1 site
- Hustedograptus teretiusculus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Expansograptus hirundo, 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
2 references- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai4
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)1
Each of the 5 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 Expansograptus hirundo was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Expansograptus hirundo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itExpansograptus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Salter 1863)