Pterograptus

No picture of Pterograptus 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 Pterograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterograptidaePBDB
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 9.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 478.8 Mya to 452.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 18 of 18 occurrencesOrdovician479–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–466 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468 Mya458.2 Mya479.3 Mya451.8 Mya

18 occurrences of Pterograptus 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

18 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

11 formations

Ningguo — 29.00°N, 115.00°ENingguo — 28.00°N, 118.00°ENingguo — 30.00°N, 120.00°ENingguo — 30.00°N, 119.00°ENingguo — 29.00°N, 119.00°ELeslie — 41.06°S, 172.51°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EMeitan — 28.00°N, 107.00°ESaergan — 40.10°N, 80.33°EValongo — 41.00°N, 8.00°WUpper Fezouata — 30.42°N, 5.85°WShiHuiGou — 38.00°N, 95.00°ESlaty Creek — 40.70°S, 172.44°EPeel — 41.06°S, 172.51°EKarasa/ Tuloi — 51.98°N, 87.14°E

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The named rock units Pterograptus 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.

Pterograptus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pterograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

105 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Pterograptus, 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

12 references

Each of the 18 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 Pterograptus 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 Pterograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pterograptus 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 itPterograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holm 1881