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Saetograptus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Hemichordata
    Class:  
Pterobranchia
    Order:  
Graptoloidea
    Superfamily:  
Neograptina
    Family:  
Monograptidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Saetograptus PŘIBYL, 1943, p. 11
    Type Species:  
* Graptolithus chimaera, BARRANDE, 1850, p. 52, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 304, 10a-b. * S. chimaera (Barrande), 10a, holotype, NMP L19973 (new, drawing by P. Štorch, 2021), 10b, chemically isolated specimen (Přibyl, 1943, fig. 1, redrawn from original illustration in Münch, 1938, pl. 5,1 a). Scale bars, 1 mm.


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

worldwide


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:  
Ludlow (Ludfordian, Saetograptus leintwardinensis Biozone)
    Ending International Stage:  
Ludfordian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
422.73


Description

Straight or dorsally curved tubarium, sicula with variably developed dorsal apertural tongue, tubular thecae terminated by paired apertural spines developed on all or only proximal thecae, aperture of first theca has broad, triangular, spine-like lateral lappets, other thecal apertures have ventral notch and laterally to dorso-laterally situated spines separated by trough from ventral wall of next theca




References

Bouček, Bedřich, & Alois Přibyl. 1943. Über böhmische Monograpten aus der Untergattung Streptograptus Yin. Mitteilungen der Tschechischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 43:1-23.


Museum or Author Information

new, drawing by P. Štorch, 2021, Přibyl, 1943, fig. 1, redrawn from original illustration in Münch, 1938