†family Diplograptidae (graptolite)

Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae

Synonym: Orthograptidae Mitchell 1987

Parent taxon: Diplograptina according to J. Maletz 2014

See also Bulman 1970, Kiessling 2008, Mitchell 1987, Mitchell et al. 2007 and Storch et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Climacograptoidea, Dicaulograptidae, Dicranograptidae, Dicranograptoidea, Lasiograptidae, Peiragraptidae

Subtaxa: Amplexograptus Anticostia Cephalograptus Corynoides Diplograptinae Diplograptus Orthograptinae Parareteograptus Peiragraptinae Rectograptus

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Type: Diplograptus

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Silurian of Argentina (1 collection), Canada (2: New Brunswick, Yukon), China (7), the Czech Republic (1), Denmark (5), Ireland (1), Morocco (3), Paraguay (2), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (4), Sweden (1), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (14), United States (16: Alaska, Iowa, New York)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec), United States (2: Alaska)

• Ordovician of Argentina (9), Australia (1), Belgium (2), Bolivia (1), Canada (80: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Northwest Terrorities, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (118), the Czech Republic (8), Estonia (1), Kazakhstan (6), Latvia (1), Lithuania (1), Malaysia (2), New Zealand (22), North Korea (1), Norway (8), Peru (1), Portugal (5), the Russian Federation (18), South Korea (1), Spain (8), Sweden (17), the United Kingdom (8), United States (132: Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (1)

• Llandeilo of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (15), Spain (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Whiterockian of Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador)

• Ningkuo of China (6)

• Arenig of China (5)

• Arenigian of United States (1: Alaska)

Total: 552 collections including 956 occurrences

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