Pleurograptus

No picture of Pleurograptus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pleurograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NemagraptinaePBDB
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 500 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 449 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 454 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 29 of 29 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 29 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence443–443 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences449.5 Mya – 449 Mya454.5 Mya442.6 Mya

29 occurrences of Pleurograptus 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

29 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

5 formations

Vinini — 39.87°N, 116.23°WWufeng — 33.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 109.00°EWufeng — 27.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 31.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 108.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 112.00°EWufeng — 31.00°N, 111.00°EPhi Kappa — 43.84°N, 114.27°WPhi Kappa — 43.85°N, 114.18°WJianchaogou — 27.00°N, 105.00°EXiehao — 38.00°N, 103.00°E

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The named rock units Pleurograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleurograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pleurograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pleurograptus, 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

Each of the 29 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

Media content0

No picture of Pleurograptus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pleurograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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What may have been alongside itNemagraptinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.