Oktavites
No picture of Oktavites 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 Oktavites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonograptidaePBDB
- 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 24 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
44 occurrences of Oktavites 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
44 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
14 formations
- Lower Shiqipo Formation · Shiqipo Group5
- Road River Formation4
- Lientan Formation4
- Oued Ali Formation2
- Bulong Formation2
- Brandon Bridge Formation2
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The named rock units Oktavites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oktavites and its relatives
SilurianWhere Oktavites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Monograptus27 sites
- Monograptus priodon15 sites
- Petalolithus10 sites
- Retiolites10 sites
- Retiolites geinitzianus9 sites
- Pristiograptus8 sites
- Rastrites6 sites
- Demirastrites5 sites
- Streptograptus5 sites
- Campograptus lobiferus4 sites
- Monoclimacis4 sites
- Climacograptus scalaris3 sites
- Spirograptus3 sites
- Stomatograptus3 sites
- Barrandeograptus2 sites
- Climacograptus2 sites
- Cyrtograptus2 sites
- Dictyonema2 sites
- Glyptograptus2 sites
- Leonaspis2 sites
- Orthograptus2 sites
- Pseudoplegmatograptus2 sites
- Acheronauta stimulapis1 site
- Akidograptus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Oktavites, 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
11 references- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China20
- Correlation of the African Silurian rocks10
- Reconnaissance of the Ordovician and Silurian rocks of Northern Yukon Territory4
- Llandovery (Early Silurian) graptolites from the Quidong Basin, NSW2
- Llandoverian and Wenlockian graptolites from Bornholm2
- Paleobiology and taphonomy of exceptionally preserved organisms from the Waukesha Biota (Silurian), Wisconsin, USA1
- Lower Silurian to Lower Devonian communities from the Armorican Massif (western France) and Artois (northern France)1
- A new exceptionally preserved biota from the Lower Silurian of Wisconsin, USA1
- Biostratigraphic reconnaissance in the Lower Palaeozoic of western North Greenland1
- Graptolite evidence for rocks of Llandoverian (Silurian) age in south-western Andorra1
- New Silurian Heterostraci from Southeastern Yukon1
Each of the 44 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 Oktavites 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 Oktavites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oktavites 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 itMonograptidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Levina 1928