Pristiograptus

Ptychodera flava Eschscholtz, 1825, a relative of Pristiograptus — not Pristiograptus itself

Not Pristiograptus. This is Ptychodera flava Eschscholtz, 1825, a relative.

Billy Bensted-Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
PristiograptinaePBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 221 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 218 of 221 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 221 occurrencesDevonian473–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 10 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 14 occurrences438–435 Mya — about 17 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 15 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 13 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 20 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 64 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 52 occurrences422–419 Mya — about 13 occurrences419–416 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.1 Mya419.62 Mya473 Mya392 Mya

221 occurrences of Pristiograptus 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

221 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

48 formations

Rusne — 55.29°N, 20.98°ERusne — 55.57°N, 21.45°ERusne — 55.19°N, 21.80°EKopanina — 50.08°N, 14.47°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.35°EKopanina — 50.20°N, 12.48°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°ESiesartis — 55.40°N, 22.91°ESiesartis — 55.24°N, 23.51°ERoad River — 65.28°N, 135.70°WRoad River — 65.48°N, 139.15°WRoad River — 64.92°N, 139.58°WRoad River — 66.72°N, 135.82°WRoad River — 64.92°N, 140.99°WRoad River — 65.02°N, 141.21°WRoad River — 65.35°N, 141.05°WPagegiai — 55.29°N, 20.98°EPagegiai — 55.57°N, 21.45°EMotol — 50.08°N, 14.47°EMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 50.03°N, 14.42°EPozary — 49.95°N, 12.93°EPozary — 50.03°N, 14.32°EPozary — 49.15°N, 13.57°ELower Jenhochiao — 25.00°N, 99.00°EHenryhouse — 34.34°N, 97.14°WHenryhouse — 34.44°N, 97.19°WHenryhouse — 34.41°N, 97.14°WPerham — 46.68°N, 68.02°W"Siaohopa" — 28.55°N, 108.85°E"Siaohopa" — 30.60°N, 109.60°EOued Ali — 29.65°N, 2.28°WOued Ali — 29.75°N, 2.28°WRiga — 55.40°N, 22.91°ERiga — 55.24°N, 23.51°EJemtland — 45.76°N, 68.22°WElton Beds — 52.17°N, 3.42°WElton Beds — 52.12°N, 3.55°WYea — 37.22°S, 145.43°EShoul Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WNanjiang — 33.00°N, 107.00°EQiaergaye — 45.95°N, 83.62°ERead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WSunday Canyon — 36.93°N, 118.07°WSunday Canyon — 36.95°N, 118.09°WXistos com Nodulos — 38.13°N, 6.98°WRoberts Mountains — 41.43°N, 114.94°W

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The named rock units Pristiograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 81 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pristiograptus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Pristiograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

502 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 138 sites for Pristiograptus, 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

49 references

Each of the 221 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. 37 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 Ptychodera flava Eschscholtz, 1825

Source
GBIF
Credit
Billy Bensted-Smith
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Pristiograptus 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 itPristiograptinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.