Facts about Graptolites, an extinct prehistoric animal

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Dinosaur Jungle   >   Other Prehistoric Animals   >   Graptolites

Graptolites



Graptolite Fossil

Scientific Classification
  Kingdom Animalia
  Phylum Hemichordata
  Class Graptolithina
Graptolites are an extinct group of marine animals that lived in the seas from the Cambrian period until the end Carboniferous period. The were extremely successful and lived in colonies - there were both benthic (permanently attached to the sea-floor by a "root") and pelagic (floating freely, or attached to seaweed) varieties.

Graptolite are very common, particularly those which were deposited in mud rocks and shales, as a result are often used as "index fossils" - that is to say that rocks can be dated. Additionally, The particular type of graptolite fossil present in a rock can sometimes used by scientists to estimate the temperature or depth of a region at the time of the Graptolite's lifetime.

Although Graptolite fossils tend to be quite common, they are not always easy to see. Even if seen, many casual observers mistake them for fossil plants, and even Carl Linnaeus (the Swedish botanist who was the principle founder of modern taxonomy) regarded them as "pictures resembling fossils rather than true fossils"

Finally, the presence of two distinct types of Grapolites in the rocks of Europe and North America, just like the two distinct types of Trilobites found in the very same rocks, has been regarded as evidence of an ancient ocean (known as the "Iapetus Ocean") that once lay between the two continents. The Iapetus Ocean is thought to have closed-up again when all the continents joined together in the super-continent of Pangaea - and when a new ocean (the Atlantic Ocean), separating Europe and North America, did eventually appear, it did so along a somewhat different line of separation.

Evidence for the Iapetus Ocean

Graptolites Timeline:



Graptolites were marine colonial animals that lived from the Cambrian period to the Carboniferous periods

Graptolites were marine colonial animals that lived from the Cambrian period to the Carboniferous periods


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Graptolite Paleobiology (TOPA Topics in Paleobiology)
By Jörg Maletz

Wiley
Released: May 8th, 2017
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  • ISBNs: 9781118515723, 1118515722
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  • Edition: 1
  • Number of Pages: 336
  • Author: Jörg Maletz
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Graptolites: Writing in the Rocks (Fossils Illustrated) (Volume 1)
Boydell Press
Released: June 24th, 2001
Hardcover (328 pages)

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  • ISBN: 0851152627
  • EAN: 9780851152622
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  • Number of Pages: 328
  • Publication Date: June 24th, 2001
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The Ordovician and Graptolites of Lithuania: The facies, tectonic structures, graptolites and biostratigraphy of the Ordovician
By Juozas Pa?kevi?ius

LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Released: April 13th, 2011
Paperback (116 pages)

The Ordovician and Graptolites of Lithuania: The facies, tectonic structures, graptolites and biostratigraphy of the Ordovician
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  • Brand: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
  • ISBNs: 9783844330441, 3844330445
  • EAN: 9783844330441
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  • Number of Pages: 116
  • Author: Juozas Pa?kevi?ius
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Graptolites of New York: 2 Volumes: Part 1: Graptolites of the Lowers Beds: Part 2: Graptolites of the Higher Beds
By unknown author

New York State Education Dept.
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Straight Outta Graptolites: Research Notebook
By Dr. Christopher D Aucoin

Independently published
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Researches Into The Graptolites Of The Lower Zones Of The Scanian: And Vestrogothian Phyllo-Tetragraptus Bed (1901)
By Sven Leonhard Tornqvist

Kessinger Publishing
Released: November 21st, 2009
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  • ISBN: 1120691850
  • EAN: 9781120691859
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  • Number of Pages: 88
  • Author: Sven Leonhard Tornqvist
  • Publication Date: November 21st, 2009
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ARE THE GRAPTOLITE BRYOZOANS?
By E.O. & Ruedemann Rudolph Ulrich

Bull Geol Soc Amer
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ARE THE GRAPTOLITE BRYOZOANS?
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Paleoecology and Biostratigraphy of Graptolites (Geological Society Special Publication)
By C. P. Hughes

Blackwell Science Inc
Released: January 1st, 1986
Hardcover (288 pages)

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  • ISBN: 0632010711
  • EAN: 9780632010714
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  • Number of Pages: 288
  • Authors: C. P. Hughes, R. B. Rickards
  • Publication Date: January 1st, 1986
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Graptolites De Bohême... (French Edition)
By Joachim Barrande

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Released: November 3rd, 2011
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  • Number of Pages: 110
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Graptolites Of New York, Part 2
By Rudolf Ruedemann

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