Orthograptus

Orthograptus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthograptinaePBDB
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 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 274 occurrencesOrdovician — about 240 of 274 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 34 of 274 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 274 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 8 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 17 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 19 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 17 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 36 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 58 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 41 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 31 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 15 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 11 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 7 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 5 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 4 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459.7 Mya422.7 Mya488 Mya418 Mya

274 occurrences of Orthograptus 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

274 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

84 formations

Wufeng — 33.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 109.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 109.00°EWufeng — 27.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 31.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 108.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 108.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 110.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 112.00°EWufeng — 30.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 31.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 115.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 118.00°EWufeng — 30.00°N, 117.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 119.00°EWufeng — 33.00°N, 106.00°EWufeng — 27.60°N, 105.42°EPhi Kappa — 43.85°N, 114.18°WIrene Bay — 75.18°N, 93.78°WIrene Bay — 75.37°N, 95.77°WIrene Bay — 75.30°N, 95.13°WRoad River — 64.50°N, 130.00°WRoad River — 68.17°N, 137.00°WRoad River — 62.64°N, 124.97°WRoad River — 62.12°N, 126.68°WRoad River — 61.63°N, 125.73°WRoad River — 62.42°N, 127.25°WRoad River — 61.70°N, 125.55°WRoad River — 65.40°N, 137.38°WRoad River — 64.92°N, 139.58°WRoad River — 64.92°N, 140.99°WDescon — 55.63°N, 133.57°WDescon — 55.52°N, 133.30°WDescon — 55.50°N, 133.62°WYinGan — 41.00°N, 79.00°EYinGan — 40.64°N, 79.50°ERoad River — 64.95°N, 141.04°WRoad River — 64.96°N, 141.21°WRoad River — 65.19°N, 141.32°WRoad River — 65.96°N, 141.20°WUtica Shale — 42.91°N, 74.22°WUtica Shale — 42.84°N, 74.50°WUtica Shale — 43.08°N, 74.50°WUtica Shale — 43.24°N, 75.26°WMaravillas — 30.16°N, 103.31°WWhitby — 45.50°N, 81.00°WWhitby — 43.88°N, 78.86°WWhitby — 44.53°N, 80.38°WMiaopo — 33.00°N, 111.00°EMiaopo — 31.00°N, 111.00°EMiaopo — 32.00°N, 118.00°EJerrestad Shale — 57.78°N, 14.18°EJerrestad Shale — 55.54°N, 14.29°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EChangwu — 28.00°N, 118.00°EChangwu — 31.00°N, 121.00°EHule — 28.00°N, 118.00°EHule — 29.00°N, 119.00°EHule — 31.00°N, 120.00°EWhite Head — 48.47°N, 64.32°WWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 49.00°N, 64.00°WNanzheng — 35.00°N, 108.00°EKaragach — 48.01°N, 80.93°EFjacka Shale — 58.00°N, 15.00°EFjacka Shale — 58.00°N, 12.00°EYanxi — 29.00°N, 112.00°EPingliang — 35.00°N, 107.00°EPingliang — 37.00°N, 107.00°ESijiagou — 38.00°N, 103.00°ESijiagou — 37.00°N, 102.00°EFonte da Horta — 40.00°N, 8.00°WFonte da Horta — 41.00°N, 8.00°WZebra Cliffs — 82.72°N, 76.87°WZebra Cliffs — 82.73°N, 77.00°W

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The named rock units Orthograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Orthograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

857 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 206 sites for Orthograptus, 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

90 references

Each of the 274 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. 78 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 Orthograptus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Orthograptus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lapworth 1873)