Yutagraptus
No picture of Yutagraptus 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 Yutagraptus, 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 most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Yutagraptus 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
6 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Yutagraptus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Yutagraptus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Yutagraptus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Eleutherocentrus petersoni4 sites
- Ostracoda2 sites
- Anomalorthis1 site
- Asaphellus1 site
- Bathyurellus pogonipensis1 site
- Cardiograptus morsus1 site
- Dictyonema1 site
- Didymograptellus nitidus1 site
- Didymograptus (Didymograptus) artus1 site
- Didymograptus paraindentus1 site
- Endoceras1 site
- Isograptus victoriae1 site
- Isograptus victoriae maximodivergens1 site
- Lecanospira1 site
- Leperditia1 site
- Lingulella1 site
- Oncograptus1 site
- Oncograptus upsilon1 site
- Orthambonites calligramme1 site
- Orthis1 site
- Pachendoceras1 site
- Parisograptus caduceus1 site
- Peelerophon oehlerti1 site
- Phyllograptus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Yutagraptus, 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
3 references- Yutagraptus mantuanus Riva in Rickards 1994, a pendent xiphograptid from the Lower Ordovician of Utah, U.S.A.4
- El sistema ordovicico en Bolivia1
- Graptolite Faunas of the Marathon Region, West Texas1
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Yutagraptus 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 Yutagraptus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Yutagraptus 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 itPterograptidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.