Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Dicranograptidae
Synonym: Leptograptus Lapworth 1873
Parent taxon: Dicranograptidae according to X. Chen et al. 2016
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Dicranograptus, Nemagraptinae
Subtaxa: Leptograptus ascendens Leptograptus capillaris Leptograptus flaccidus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada collection)
• Chazyan of United States (1: California)
• Arenig of China (2)
• Ordovician of Argentina (10), Australia (2), Belgium (2), Canada (16: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (89), Czechia (4), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (1), New Zealand (10), Norway (5), the Russian Federation (13), Sweden (13), the United Kingdom (4), United States (81: Alaska, California, Idaho, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia), Vietnam (1)
Total: 256 collections including 345 occurrences
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