Mastigograptus serialis

No picture of Mastigograptus serialis 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 Mastigograptus serialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MastigograptusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Graptoloidea
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Graptoloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Graptolithina

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 494.2 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 452.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician498–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494.2 Mya458.2 Mya497.9 Mya451.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Mastigograptus serialis on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

Peel — 41.14°S, 172.59°EScopus — 40.81°S, 145.02°E

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

Mastigograptus serialis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Mastigograptus serialis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mastigograptus serialis, 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

2 references

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. 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 Mastigograptus serialis 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 Mastigograptus serialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mastigograptus serialis 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMastigograptus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Chapman and Thomas 1936)