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Neodiversograptus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Hemichordata
    Class:  
Pterobranchia
    Order:  
Graptoloidea
    Superfamily:  
Neograptina
    Family:  
Monograptidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Neodiversograptus URBANEK, 1963, p. 149
    Type Species:  
*Monograptus nilssoni Lapworth, 1876c, p. 315, sensu URBANEK, 1954, p. 300, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 307,4a-c. *N. nilssoni (Lapworth), 4a, neotype (Palmer 1971b, p. 97), Long Mountain Shales, Welsh Borderlands, UK (Wilkinson, 2018c, Atlas, Folio 3.58), 4 b-c, proximal ends without (4b) and with (4c) sicular cladium, Silurian, Ludlow, Poland (Urbanek, 1997b, fig. 2A-B). Scale bars, 1 mm.


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Geographic Distribution

worldwide (although only questionably from Arctic Canada)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Silurian, Ludlow (Gorstian, Neodiversograptus nilssoni Biozone)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Gorstian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
426.74
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Silurian (Ludfordian, Saetograptus leintwardinensis Biozone)
    Ending International Stage:  
Ludfordian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
422.73


Description

Proximally gently dorsally curved monograptid stipe, distally straight or dorso-ventrally curved, forming bipolar tubarium in mature specimens, sicula with long dorsal apertural spine, with its further prolongation producing secondary nema for sicular cladium, thecae tubular, with apertures either straight or with slightly elevated margins, ventral thecal wall at low angle to tubarium axis




References

Urbanek, Adam. 1963. On generation and regeneration of cladia in some Upper Silurian monograptids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 8 (2):135-254.


Museum or Author Information

Wilkinson, 2018, Urbanek, 1997