Didymograptus
Appearance
Didymograptus Temporal range: Middle Ordovician
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Didymograptus is an extinct genus of graptolites with four rows of cups. They lived during the Middle Ordovician,[1] to Late Ordovician.[2]
Distribution
Fossils of Didymograptus have been found in Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Canada (Northwest Territories, Quebec, Yukon, Newfoundland and Labrador), Chile, China, Colombia (Tarqui, Huila),[3] the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Iran, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States (Alaska, California, Idaho, Nevada, New York, Utah), and Venezuela.[2]
References
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- ^ Palmer, Douglas; et al. (2009). "Ordovician". Prehistoric Life: the Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth (first American ed.). New York City: DK Publishing. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-7566-5573-0.
- ^ a b Didymograptus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Moreno et al., 2008, p.10
Bibliography
Categories:
- Graptolite genera
- Ordovician invertebrates
- Paleozoic animals of Oceania
- Ordovician animals of Africa
- Ordovician animals of Asia
- Ordovician animals of Europe
- Ordovician animals of North America
- Ordovician Canada
- Ordovician United States
- Ordovician animals of South America
- Ordovician Argentina
- Ordovician Bolivia
- Ordovician Colombia
- Fossils of Colombia
- Ordovician Peru
- Ordovician Venezuela
- Fossil taxa described in 1851
- Paleozoic life of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Paleozoic life of the Northwest Territories
- Paleozoic life of Quebec
- Paleozoic life of Yukon
- Hemichordate stubs