Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudoclimacograptusPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 463.3 Mya to 452.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
31 occurrences of Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi 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
31 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
16 formations
- Road River Formation7
- Phi Kappa Formation4
- Yingan Formation4
- Karagach Formation2
- Hulo Formation2
- Sarka Formation1
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The named rock units Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
310 taxa- Climacograptus9 sites
- Didymograptus9 sites
- Glossograptus9 sites
- Diplograptus8 sites
- Dicellograptus7 sites
- Glyptograptus7 sites
- Dicellograptus sextans exilis5 sites
- Hustedograptus teretiusculus5 sites
- Orthograptus5 sites
- Amplexograptus4 sites
- Cryptograptus tricornis4 sites
- Nemagraptus gracilis4 sites
- Taklamakania tarimensis4 sites
- Ampyxinella rotundata3 sites
- Caryocaris3 sites
- Reteograptus geinitzianus3 sites
- Amplexograptus praetypicalis2 sites
- Bekkerina dorsata2 sites
- Corynoides2 sites
- Corynoides tricornis2 sites
- Cyclopyge2 sites
- Dicellograptus sextans2 sites
- Didymograptus murchisoni2 sites
- Dindymene longicaudata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi, 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
14 references- Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian biostratigraphy of east-central Alaska8
- Graptolites from the Qilang and Yingan formations (Caradoc, Ordovician) of Kalpin, western Tarim, Xinjiang, China4
- Ordovician and Silurian graptolite succession in the Trail Creek area, central Idaho-a graptolite zone reference section4
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)2
- Late Ordovician trilobites from the Karagach Formation of the western Tarbagatai Range, Kazakhstan2
- Early Sandbian (Late Ordovician) conodonts from the Yenwashan Formation, western Zhejiang, South China2
- Middle Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland2
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai1
- Graptolites from the Benton area of west-central New Brunswick and their regional significance1
- Geology of the Bristol and Wallace quadrangles, Virginia1
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia1
- Lower and Middle Viruan (Middle Ordovician) of the Siljan district1
Each of the 31 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. 2 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 Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi 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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What may have been alongside itPseudoclimacograptus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lapworth 1976)