Normalograptus normalis

Normalograptus normalis

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
NormalograptusPBDB
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 17 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 12 of 40 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 28 of 40 occurrencesSilurian450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–448 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 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 3 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 5 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 5 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 5 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 5 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence438–438 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450 Mya432.4 Mya

40 occurrences of Normalograptus normalis 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

40 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

20 formations

Becscie — 49.82°N, 64.35°WBecscie — 49.42°N, 62.25°WBecscie — 49.50°N, 63.00°WJupiter — 49.50°N, 63.00°WJupiter — 49.47°N, 63.62°WBirkhill Shale — 55.43°N, 3.28°WWhite Head — 46.88°N, 60.35°WWhite Head — 48.67°N, 65.83°WWhite Head — 49.00°N, 64.00°WGun River — 49.47°N, 63.62°WGun River — 49.00°N, 62.00°WWestfield Sandstone — 42.62°S, 146.37°EWestfield Sandstone — 42.63°S, 146.50°ESkelgill — 54.38°N, 3.05°WLa Chilca — 30.30°S, 68.67°WRoad River — 65.35°N, 133.50°WLower Shiqipo — 28.15°N, 85.97°ELungmachi — 27.50°N, 108.23°ENanzheng — 35.00°N, 108.00°ERoad River — 64.96°N, 141.21°WCerig Gwynion Grits — 52.20°N, 3.43°WCotton — 33.33°S, 147.95°EGözdag — 40.98°N, 29.34°ETanjung Dendang — 6.44°N, 99.88°EVtorye Utyosy — 51.43°N, 83.13°EKajrak — 40.83°N, 69.58°EUrubulak — 40.83°N, 69.58°E

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The named rock units Normalograptus normalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Normalograptus normalis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Normalograptus normalis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

122 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Normalograptus normalis, 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

22 references

Each of the 40 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. 10 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 Normalograptus normalis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lapworth 1877)