Phyllograptus

Searched as Phyllograptus angustifolius angustifolius. The Paleobiology Database treats Phyllograptus as the accepted name.

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

Phyllograptus

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
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 1.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 473.1 Mya to 471.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 484.3 Mya to 470.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician484–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences473.1 Mya – 471.3 Mya484.8 Mya469.8 Mya

2 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

2 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

1 formation

Aorangi Mine — 40.68°S, 172.68°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.

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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Phyllograptus

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

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
phyllograptus sp. · MST:PALEO:MST-SP-6371

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itPhyllograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1858