Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
Alternative spelling: Diplograptus (Glyptograptus)
Parent taxon: Petalolithinae according to M. J. Melchin et al. 2011
See also Bulman 1970, Mitchell 1987, Sepkoski 2002 and Storch and Loydell 1996
Sister taxa: Comograptus, Paramplexograptus, Parapetalolithus, Petalolithus, Sudburigraptus
Subtaxa: Glyptograptus (Pseudoglyptograptus) Glyptograptus (Pseudoglytograptus) Glyptograptus elegans Glyptograptus incertus Glyptograptus tamariscoides Glyptograptus tamariscus Glyptograptus trubinensis
Type: Diplograptus tamariscus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Australia (1 collection), Canada (4: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (12), Denmark (4), France (2), the Russian Federation (9), Serbia (2), the United Kingdom (8), United States (7: Alaska, Idaho), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (1)
• Uhaku of Lithuania (1), Sweden (3)
• Dobrotivian of Portugal (2), Spain (2)
• Whiterockian of Canada (2: Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Arenig of China (20), Norway (2)
• Dawan of China (2)
• Ningkuo of China (10)
• Ordovician to Silurian of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Ordovician of Argentina (9), Australia (2), Canada (19: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec, Yukon), China (61), Czechia (3), Estonia (3), Latvia (1), Lithuania (2), New Zealand (3), Norway (5), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (8), Spain (1), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (27: Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, New York, Tennessee), Venezuela (1)
Total: 247 collections including 270 occurrences
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