Phyllograptus

Phyllograptus is a graptolite genus of the order Graptoloidea, in the family Tetragraptidae.

Phyllograptus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhyllograptidaePBDB
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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 473.8 Mya to 451 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 449.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 129 occurrencesOrdovician — about 129 of 129 occurrencesOrdovician490–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 11 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 14 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 15 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 14 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 17 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 20 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 10 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 4 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 2 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 3 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences473.8 Mya451 Mya489.7 Mya448.7 Mya

129 occurrences of Phyllograptus 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

129 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

45 formations

Dawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 28.00°N, 109.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 108.00°EDawan — 30.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 31.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 27.00°N, 101.00°EDawan — 30.00°N, 116.00°EDawan — 30.86°N, 110.37°ERollston Range — 20.53°S, 146.43°ENingguo — 29.00°N, 115.00°ENingguo — 28.00°N, 118.00°ENingguo — 30.00°N, 120.00°ENingguo — 29.00°N, 119.00°EAorangi Mine — 40.68°S, 172.68°EAorangi Mine — 40.60°S, 172.56°EAorangi Mine — 40.70°S, 172.44°EAorangi Mine — 41.67°S, 172.39°EAl Rose — 37.00°N, 118.00°WAl Rose — 36.96°N, 118.09°WAl Rose — 36.91°N, 118.06°WPhi Kappa — 43.80°N, 114.25°WPhi Kappa — 43.85°N, 114.18°WVoskresenka — 51.61°N, 82.94°EMeitan — 29.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 27.00°N, 107.00°ETuloi — 52.22°N, 87.01°ETuloi — 52.02°N, 87.12°EToyen — 60.00°N, 11.00°EAcoite — 24.00°S, 66.00°WAcoite — 22.00°S, 66.00°WAcoite — 23.58°S, 65.69°WLower Road River — 65.88°N, 135.67°WKarasa — 51.98°N, 87.14°EKarmberg — 42.00°S, 146.00°EHuangyi — 26.00°N, 110.00°EHuangyi — 23.00°N, 110.00°EZhitai — 29.00°N, 109.00°EXiliangsi — 32.00°N, 106.00°EXiliangsi — 33.00°N, 106.00°EXiaotan — 32.00°N, 118.00°ELandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°EDeepkill Shale — 42.65°N, 73.76°WElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°ECarmarthen — 51.84°N, 4.30°WShengpin — 26.00°N, 110.00°EXiahuangkeng — 22.00°N, 112.00°E

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The named rock units Phyllograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phyllograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Phyllograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

520 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 110 sites for Phyllograptus, 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

53 references

Each of the 129 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. 41 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 Phyllograptus

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phyllograptus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Hall 1858