Graptodictya obliqua

Graptodictya obliqua Bassler, 1911, a relative of Graptodictya obliqua — not Graptodictya obliqua itself

Not Graptodictya obliqua. This is Graptodictya obliqua Bassler, 1911, a relative — both are Escharoporidae.

Wahl · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
GraptodictyaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 400 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.9 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450.4 Mya449 Mya

2 occurrences of Graptodictya obliqua 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

2 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

2 formations

Korgessaare — 58.90°N, 22.70°ELyckholm — 59.22°N, 26.55°E

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The named rock units Graptodictya obliqua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Graptodictya obliqua and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Graptodictya obliqua and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Graptodictya obliqua, 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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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

Media content1

Picture of Graptodictya obliqua Bassler, 1911

Source
GBIF
Credit
Wahl
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Graptodictya obliqua 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 itGraptodictya through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassler 1911