Rickardsograptus tcherskyi

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RickardsograptusPBDB
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 4.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 438.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 4 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesSilurian453–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445.2 Mya440.5 Mya453.3 Mya438.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Rickardsograptus tcherskyi 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

4 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

1 formation

Cape Phillips — 75.45°N, 94.33°W

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The named rock units Rickardsograptus tcherskyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Rickardsograptus tcherskyi and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rickardsograptus tcherskyi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rickardsograptus tcherskyi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 Rickardsograptus tcherskyi 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 Rickardsograptus tcherskyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rickardsograptus tcherskyi 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 itRickardsograptus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Obut and Sobolevskaya 1967)