Goniograptus

Goniograptus is an extinct genus of graptolites.

Goniograptus

Internet Archive Book Images · No restrictions · via Wikipedia/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
SigmagraptidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
planktonicPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At least 5.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 473.1 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 19 of 19 occurrencesOrdovician478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 4 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473.1 Mya468 Mya477.6 Mya457.7 Mya

19 occurrences of Goniograptus 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

19 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

5 formations

Aorangi Mine — 40.60°S, 172.56°EAorangi Mine — 40.68°S, 172.68°EAorangi Mine — 40.70°S, 172.44°EAorangi Mine — 41.67°S, 172.39°ELower Road River — 65.88°N, 135.67°WRollston Range — 20.53°S, 146.43°EDeepkill Shale — 42.65°N, 73.76°WPhi Kappa — 43.85°N, 114.18°W

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The named rock units Goniograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Goniograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

63 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Goniograptus, 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

Each of the 19 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

Media content1

Picture of Goniograptus

Credit
Internet Archive Book Images
Licence
No restrictions
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Goniograptus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. McCoy 1876