Pseudoplegmatograptus
No picture of Pseudoplegmatograptus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pseudoplegmatograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RetiolitinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Graptoloidea
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Graptoloidea
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Graptoloidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Graptolithina
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Pseudoplegmatograptus 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
12 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
- Lientan Formation2
- Lojoping Formation1
- Nanjiang Formation1
- Cape Phillips Formation1
- Road River Formation1
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The named rock units Pseudoplegmatograptus 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.
Pseudoplegmatograptus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Pseudoplegmatograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Monograptus6 sites
- Petalolithus4 sites
- Rastrites4 sites
- Diversograptus2 sites
- Glyptograptus2 sites
- Monograptus priodon2 sites
- Oktavites2 sites
- Pristiograptus2 sites
- Retiolites2 sites
- Spirograptus2 sites
- Beitaia1 site
- Brachyelasma1 site
- Brevilamnulella1 site
- Cantrillia1 site
- Catenipora1 site
- Cephalograptus1 site
- Clathrodictyon mammillatum1 site
- Clathrodictyon sulevi1 site
- Climacograptus1 site
- Climacograptus scalaris1 site
- Coronograptus1 site
- Cystiphyllum (Cysticonophyllum)1 site
- Demirastrites1 site
- Desmograptus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pseudoplegmatograptus, 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
5 references- On the Graptolite Schists Formation (Silurian–Lower Devonian) in the Carpatho–Balkanides of eastern Serbia5
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China4
- New and unusual upper Llandovery graptolites from Arctic Canada1
- Llandoverian graptolites of the northern Canadian Cordillera: Petalograptus, Cephalograptus, Rhaphidograptus, Dimorphograptus, Retiolitidae, and Monograptidae1
- Llandoverian and Wenlockian graptolites from Bornholm1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Pseudoplegmatograptus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pseudoplegmatograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudoplegmatograptus 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 itRetiolitinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.