Graptolites are a group of colonial animals, members of the subclass Graptolithina within the class Pterobranchia. These filter-feeding organisms are...
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Dictyonema is a genus of dendroid graptolites in the order Dendroidea. Fossils of Dictyonema are found from the Upper Cambrian to the Devonian (age range:...
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Axonophora (redirect from Biserial graptolite)
Axonophora is an extinct suborder of graptolites. It primarily consists of the biserial graptolites, and also includes the retiolitids and monograptids...
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Graptolite Island is an island 0.8 km (0.50 mi) long in the north-east part of Fitchie Bay, lying off the south-east portion of Laurie Island in the South...
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This list of graptolites is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be members...
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Silurian periods. The formation contains a high diversity of graptolite fossils. Graptolite fossil taxa found include: Monograptus priodon Retiolites geinitzianus...
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Graptolites, which evolved in the preceding Cambrian period, thrived in the oceans. This includes the distinctive Nemagraptus gracilis graptolite fauna...
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lundgreni graptolite biozone. The first peak spans from the uppermost portion of the lundgreni biozone all the way to the praedeubeli-deubeli graptolite biozone...
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Rhabdopleura (category Graptolites)
Middle Cambrian, it is also considered to be the only living genus of graptolites. Rhabdopleura is the best studied pterobranch in developmental biology...
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branched tentacles, and has a short, shield-shaped proboscis. The extinct graptolites, colonial animals whose fossils look like tiny hacksaw blades, lived...
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crinoids (only articulates survived), and all eurypterids, trilobites, graptolites, hyoliths, edrioasteroid crinozoans, blastoids and acanthodians. Ouachita...
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System Time span formality Formal Lower boundary definition FAD of the Graptolite Monograptus uniformis Lower boundary GSSP Klonk, Czech Republic 49°51′18″N...
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Dilly P (1993) Cephalodiscus graptolitoides sp. nov. a probable extant graptolite. Journal of Zoology 229: 69-78. Swalla, B.J.; van der Land, J. (2020)...
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clade as the extinct graptolites, and phylogenetic analysis suggests that the pterobranchs are living members of the graptolite clade. Pterobranchs are...
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Artur A.; Meireles, Carlos; González-Clavijo, E. (1 June 2006). "Silurian graptolite biostratigraphy of the Galicia – Tras-os-Montes Zone (Spain and Portugal)"...
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It bears strong similarity to the graptolites - indeed for some time it was misclassified as a dendroid graptolite. Bengtson, S.; Urbanek, A. (1986),...
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formation in Malaysia. The band of graptolite- and trilobite-bearing shales interbedded in limestones preserves graptolite, brachiopod and trilobite fossils...
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boundary of the Darriwilian is defined as the first appearance of the graptolite species Undulograptus austrodentatus around 467.3 million years ago. It...
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1835 Time span formality Formal Lower boundary definition FAD of the Graptolite Akidograptus ascensus Lower boundary GSSP Dob's Linn, Moffat, United Kingdom...
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and twisted. Graptolite Island, off of Laurie Island's south-east coast, particularly exhibited these shale formations. It was on Graptolite Island that...
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stalk-like feature supporting the cap of a mushroom Stipe (graptolite), a branch of a fossilized graptolite colony This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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commonly called acorn worms, and the Pterobranchia, which includes the graptolites. A third class, Planctosphaeroidea, is proposed based on a single species...
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Wimanicrustidae (category Graptolites)
Wimanicrustidae is an extinct family of graptolites. List of genera from Maletz (2014): †Bulmanicrusta Kozłowski, 1962 †Ellesicrusta Kozłowski, 1962 †Graptoblastoides...
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Graptolitic argillite (redirect from Graptolite argillite)
graptolitic argillite, this name is now considered a misnomer as the graptolite fossils in the rock, earlier considered dictyonemids, were reclassified...
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meta-bentonites. The base was originally defined as the first appearance of the graptolite Akidograptus ascensus at Dob's Linn, but was later discovered to be imprecise...
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fluctivagus. Where these conodonts are not found the appearance of planktonic graptolites or the trilobite Jujuyaspis borealis can be used. The boundary also corresponds...
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ancestor of the Chordata [human] lineage, Hemichordata (acorn worms and graptolites) and Echinodermata (starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc.), probably...
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Mastigograptidae (category Graptolites)
family of graptolites. List of genera from Maletz (2014): †Mastigograptus Ruedemann, 1908 †Micrograptus Eisenack, 1974 Maletz, Jörg (2017). Graptolite Paleobiology...
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1974. The boundaries were established by the fauna of conodonts and/or graptolites. In 1995, the Subcommission on Ordovician Stratigraphy, with the support...
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Climacograptidae (category Graptolites)
Climacograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. List of genera from Maletz (2014): †Appendispinograptus Li & Li, 1985 †Clathrograptus Lapworth,...
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