Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Alternative spellings: Diplograpsus (Climacograptus), Graptolithus (Climacograptus)
Parent taxon: Climacograptidae according to X. Chen et al. 2016
See also Kiessling 2008, McCoy 1874, Mitchell et al. 2007, Sepkoski 2002, Storch et al. 2011 and White 1874
Sister taxa: Appendispinograptus, Diplacanthograptus, Haddingograptus, Oelandograptus, Proclimacograptus, Pseudoclimacograptus, Styracograptus
Subtaxa: Climacograptus (Climacograptus) Climacograptus (Dicranograptus) Climacograptus hastatus Climacograptus nevadensis Climacograptus putillus Climacograptus scalaris Climacograptus styloideus Climacograptus typicalis Graptolithus (Climacograptus) ramulus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Algeria (3 collections), Argentina (2), Canada (5: Quebec, Québec), China (14), Denmark (7), France (1), Jordan (2), Morocco (2), Paraguay (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (5), Sweden (1), Thailand (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (16: Alaska, Idaho, New York), Western Sahara (1)
• Dobrotivian of France (1), Portugal (1)
• Whiterockian of Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Arenig of China (5)
• Ningkuo of China (5)
• Arenigian of United States (1: Alaska)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec), United States (2: Alaska)
• Ordovician of Argentina (7), Australia (2), Canada (31: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (102), the Czech Republic (3), Kazakhstan (2), Lithuania (2), Malaysia (1), New Zealand (17), Norway (9), the Russian Federation (10), Sweden (20), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (117: Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (1)
• Tremadoc of Canada (2: Yukon)
Total: 418 collections including 499 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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