Levisograptus sinodentatus
No picture of Levisograptus sinodentatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Levisograptus sinodentatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LevisograptusPBDB
- 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 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Levisograptus sinodentatus 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
3 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
2 formations
- Voskresenka Formation2
- Karasa/ Tuloi Formation1
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The named rock units Levisograptus sinodentatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Levisograptus sinodentatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Levisograptus sinodentatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Expansograptus2 sites
- Expansograptus hirundo2 sites
- Parisograptus caduceus2 sites
- Pseudotrigonograptus2 sites
- Pseudotrigonograptus ensiformis2 sites
- Undulograptus2 sites
- Acrograptus1 site
- Callograptus1 site
- Cardiograptus1 site
- Cybelurus1 site
- Glossograptus1 site
- Isograptus1 site
- Levisograptus austrodentatus1 site
- Levisograptus sinicus1 site
- Loganograptus1 site
- Lonchodomas rostratus1 site
- Paraglossograptus1 site
- Phyllograptus anna1 site
- Pseudisograptus1 site
- Pseudoclimacograptus1 site
- Pterograptus1 site
- Raymondaspis1 site
- Robergia sparsa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Levisograptus sinodentatus, 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 referenceEach of the 3 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 Levisograptus sinodentatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Levisograptus sinodentatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Levisograptus sinodentatus 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 itLevisograptus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mu and Lee 1958)