Normalograptus praecursor Koren and Rickards 2004 (graptolite)

Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Normalograptidae

Alternative combination: Glyptograptus tamariscus praecursor

Full reference: T. N. Koren and R. B. Rickards. 2004. An Unusually Diverse Llandovery (Silurian) Diplograptid Fauna from the Southern Urals of Russia and Its Evolutionary Significance. Palaeontology 47:859-918

Belongs to Normalograptus according to M. J. Melchin et al. 2011

See also Koren and Rickards 2004

Sister taxa: Normalograptus ajjeri, Normalograptus angustus, Normalograptus jideliensis, Normalograptus laciniosus, Normalograptus lubricus, Normalograptus magnus, Normalograptus medius, Normalograptus mirnyensis, Normalograptus normalis, Normalograptus radicatus, Normalograptus rectangularis, Normalograptus rhizinus, Normalograptus temalaensis, Normalograptus trifilis

Type specimen: SM X25750

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Eastern bank of the Dergaish River, 800 m east of Mazovo village (Silurian of Russian Federation)

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