Saetograptus

No picture of Saetograptus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Saetograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MonograptidaePBDB
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 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 36 of 36 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 36 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 4 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 4 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 4 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 4 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 3 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 3 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 3 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 3 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 2 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426.7 Mya422.7 Mya433.4 Mya419.1 Mya

36 occurrences of Saetograptus 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

36 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

12 formations

Rusne — 55.40°N, 22.91°ERusne — 55.29°N, 20.98°ERusne — 55.57°N, 21.45°ERusne — 55.19°N, 21.80°EElton Beds — 52.17°N, 3.42°WElton Beds — 52.12°N, 3.55°WKopanina — 50.20°N, 12.48°EKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.32°EOued Ali — 29.00°N, 3.00°WOued Ali — 29.75°N, 2.28°WCape Phillips — 75.13°N, 95.00°WWilsonia Shales — 52.00°N, 3.00°WShoul Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WRacine Dolomite — 42.00°N, 88.00°WMirrabooka — 33.31°S, 148.87°ESiesartis — 55.40°N, 22.91°EKhotynbulak — 40.41°N, 66.45°EJemtland — 45.76°N, 68.22°W

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The named rock units Saetograptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saetograptus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Saetograptus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

169 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Saetograptus, 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

15 references

Each of the 36 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. 3 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

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No picture of Saetograptus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Saetograptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.