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: Paramplexograptus, Petalolithus
Subtaxa: Glyptograptus (Pseudoglytograptus) Glyptograptus tamariscus Glyptograptus trubinensis
Type: Diplograptus tamariscus
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Silurian of Australia (1 collection), Canada (1: Yukon), China (12), Denmark (5), France (2), the Russian Federation (6), Serbia and Montenegro (2), the United Kingdom (6), United States (7: Alaska, Idaho), Western Sahara (1)
• Dobrotivian of Portugal (2), Spain (2)
• Uhaku of Lithuania (1), Sweden (3)
• Whiterockian of Canada (2: Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Volkhov of Estonia (1)
• Dawan of China (2)
• Arenig of China (20), Norway (2)
• Ningkuo of China (10)
• Ordovician to Silurian of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Ordovician of Argentina (9), Australia (2), Canada (17: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec, Yukon), China (61), the Czech Republic (6), Estonia (2), 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: 240 collections including 260 occurrences
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