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Desmograptus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Hemichordata
    Class:  
Pterobranchia
    Order:  
Dendroidea
    Superfamily:  
Unknown
    Family:  
Callograptidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Desmograptus Hopkinson in Hopkinson & LAPWORTH, 1875, p. 668
    Type Species:  
*D. (D.) cancellatus, M


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Fig. 152,1a. *D. cancellatus, holotype, SM A17507, scale bar, 10 mm (Bulman, 1970, fig. 16,2)., ——Fig. 152,1b, D. bulbosus (Spencer, 1878), holotype, Silurian, Niagara Limestone, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, scale bar, 10 mm (Spencer, 1884, pl. 4,4)., _-Fig. 152,1c-d. D. nathorsti (Poulsen, 1924), holotype, Katian, Bornholm, Denmark. scale bars, 10 \mathrm{~mm}, 1 mm , respectively (Poulsen, 1924, fig. 2a-b).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

worldwide


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Ordovician (Tremadocian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Tremadocian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
486.85
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Devonian
    Ending International Stage:  
Famennian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
359.3


Description

Tubarium may be conical or fan-shaped, simple to compound stipes, regular, dominant anastomosis, dissepiments rare, autothecae tubular, denticulate to isolate aperturally, bithecae much smaller




References

Hopkinson, John, & Charles Lapworth. 1875. Descriptions of the graptolites of the Arenig and Llandeilo rocks of St. David's. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 31:631-672, pl. 33-37.


Museum or Author Information

SM, Bulman, 1970, Spencer, 1878, Spencer, 1884, Poulsen, 1924, Poulsen, 1924