Metaclimacograptus

Metaclimacograptus

Eksp. · 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
NormalograptidaePBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 53 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 49 of 53 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 2 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 9 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 9 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 8 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 7 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 6 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence438–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–432 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452.8 Mya440.5 Mya458.7 Mya432.4 Mya

53 occurrences of Metaclimacograptus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

53 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

13 formations

Vtorye Utyosy — 51.33°N, 83.02°EVtorye Utyosy — 51.43°N, 83.13°ESakmara — 51.50°N, 58.03°ESkelgill — 54.50°N, 3.17°WSkelgill — 54.32°N, 2.52°WDescon — 55.63°N, 133.57°WDescon — 55.52°N, 133.30°WCwmere — 52.39°N, 3.84°WZelkovice — 50.00°N, 14.05°EKallholn — 55.53°N, 14.23°EKallholn — 55.50°N, 14.03°ECape Phillips — 75.45°N, 94.33°WXiaoshihugou — 37.95°N, 101.05°EBirkhill Shale — 52.58°N, 3.50°WRoad River — 64.96°N, 141.21°WBugryshikha — 51.34°N, 83.05°EDerwenlas — 52.39°N, 3.84°W

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The named rock units Metaclimacograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metaclimacograptus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Metaclimacograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Metaclimacograptus, 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

17 references

Each of the 53 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 Metaclimacograptus

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

No 3D scan of Metaclimacograptus 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 itNormalograptidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bulman and Rickards 1968)