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Undulograptus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Hemichordata
    Class:  
Pterobranchia
    Order:  
Graptoloidea
    Superfamily:  
Neograptina
    Family:  
Dicranograptidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Undulograptus BОЧС̌ЕК, 1973, p. 121
    Type Species:  
*Pseudoclimacograptus formosus MU & LEE, 1958, p. 406, OD


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Fig. 248,4a-b. * U. formosus (Mu \& Lee), 4a, NIGP 9771b, specimen on slab with holotype, reverse view, 4 b, holotype, NIGP 9771, obverse view, scale bars, 1 mm (Mitchell, 1992, fig. 2c, 2e)., ——Fig. 248, 4c-d. U. camptochilus (Skevington, 1965), 4c, NRM Cn 59945, isolated specimen, scale bar, 1 mm (Mitchell, 1992, fig. 2a), 4d, NRM Cn 59944, note unusual apertural flanges, scale bar, 1 mm (Bulman, 1936a, pl. 3,30).


Synonyms

Climacograptus, Pseudoclimacograptus


Geographic Distribution

Czech Republic, Sweden, Germany, Turkey, China


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian, Levisograptus dentatus Biozone)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Darriwilian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
469.42
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian, Levisograptus dentatus Biozone)
    Ending International Stage:  
Darriwilian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
458.18


Description

Neograptines with slender tubarium, wide, rounded proximal end lacking spines except for commonly elongated virgella, geniculum rounded, proximal development of pattern C astogeny, median septum strongly undulate, thecae long, with double sigmoidal shape, without intrathecal folds, and with straight horizontal apertures




References



Museum or Author Information

NIGP, NRM, Mitchell, 1992, Skevington, 1965, Mitchell, 1992, Bulman, 1936