Graptolite, the Glossary
Graptolites are a group of colonial animals, members of the subclass Graptolithina within the class Pterobranchia.[1]
Table of Contents
171 relations: Abereiddy, Abrograptidae, Acanthograptidae, Acorn worm, Aeronian, Amino acid, Andean Geology, Anisograptidae, Appendage, Asexual reproduction, Asymmetry, Australia, Axonophora, Benthic zone, Biomineralization, Biostratigraphy, Bryozoa, Buoyancy, Cambrian, Carapace, Carbonaceous film (paleontology), Carboniferous, Carl Linnaeus, Carl Wiman, Cenozoic, Cephalodiscida, Cephalodiscus, Chaunograptus, Chert, Chitin, Chordate, Class (biology), Climacograptidae, Climacograptus, Collagen, Cretaceous, Cyclograptidae, Cysticamaridae, Dendrograptidae, Deuterostome, Developmental biology, Devonian, Dichograptidae, Dicranograptidae, Dictyonema (graptolite), Didymograptidae, Didymograptus, Dimorphograptidae, Diplograptidae, Dithecodendridae, ... Expand index (121 more) »
- Carboniferous extinctions
- Carboniferous invertebrates
- Devonian invertebrates
- Graptolites
- Ordovician invertebrates
- Paleozoic invertebrates
- Permian invertebrates
- Silurian invertebrates
Abereiddy
Abereiddy (Abereddi) is a hamlet in the county of Pembrokeshire, in west Wales.
Abrograptidae
Abrograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites from the Middle Ordovician. Graptolite and Abrograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Abrograptidae
Acanthograptidae
Acanthograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Acanthograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Acanthograptidae
Acorn worm
The acorn worms or Enteropneusta are a hemichordate class of invertebrates consisting of one order of the same name.
Aeronian
In the geologic timescale, the Aeronian is an age of the Llandovery Epoch of the Silurian Period of the Paleozoic Era of the Phanerozoic Eon that began 440.8 ± 1.2 Ma and ended 438.5 ± 1.1 Ma (million years ago).
Amino acid
Amino acids are organic compounds that contain both amino and carboxylic acid functional groups.
Andean Geology
Andean Geology (formerly Revista Geológica de Chile) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published three times per year by the National Geology and Mining Service, Chile's geology and mining agency.
See Graptolite and Andean Geology
Anisograptidae
Anisograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Anisograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Anisograptidae
Appendage
An appendage (or outgrowth) is an external body part, or natural prolongation, that protrudes from an organism's or microorganism's body.
Asexual reproduction
Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that does not involve the fusion of gametes or change in the number of chromosomes.
See Graptolite and Asexual reproduction
Asymmetry
Asymmetry is the absence of, or a violation of, symmetry (the property of an object being invariant to a transformation, such as reflection).
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Axonophora
Axonophora is an extinct suborder of graptolites. Graptolite and Axonophora are graptolites.
Benthic zone
The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers.
See Graptolite and Benthic zone
Biomineralization
Biomineralization, also written biomineralisation, is the process by which living organisms produce minerals, often resulting in hardened or stiffened mineralized tissues.
See Graptolite and Biomineralization
Biostratigraphy
Biostratigraphy is the branch of stratigraphy which focuses on correlating and assigning relative ages of rock strata by using the fossil assemblages contained within them.
See Graptolite and Biostratigraphy
Bryozoa
Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies.
Buoyancy
Buoyancy, or upthrust, is a gravitational force, a net upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of a partially or fully immersed object.
Cambrian
The Cambrian is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon.
Carapace
A carapace is a dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises.
Carbonaceous film (paleontology)
A carbonaceous film or carbon film is an organism outline of a fossil.
See Graptolite and Carbonaceous film (paleontology)
Carboniferous
The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.
See Graptolite and Carboniferous
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
See Graptolite and Carl Linnaeus
Carl Wiman
Carl Johan Josef Ernst Wiman (March 10, 1867 – June 15, 1944) was a Swedish palaeontologist, the first professor of palaeontology and historical geology at Uppsala University, and the father of Swedish vertebrate palaeontology.
Cenozoic
The Cenozoic is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history.
Cephalodiscida
Cephalodiscida is one of two orders in the class Pterobranchia, which are small, worm-shaped animals.
See Graptolite and Cephalodiscida
Cephalodiscus
Cephalodiscus is a genus of hemichordates in the monotypic family Cephalodiscidae of the order Cephalodiscida.
See Graptolite and Cephalodiscus
Chaunograptus
Chaunograptus is a genus of putative graptolite known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.
See Graptolite and Chaunograptus
Chert
Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).
Chitin
Chitin (C8H13O5N)n is a long-chain polymer of ''N''-acetylglucosamine, an amide derivative of glucose.
Chordate
A chordate is a deuterostomic animal belonging to the phylum Chordata. All chordates possess, at some point during their larval or adult stages, five distinctive physical characteristics (synapomorphies) that distinguish them from other taxa.
Class (biology)
In biological classification, class (classis) is a taxonomic rank, as well as a taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank.
See Graptolite and Class (biology)
Climacograptidae
Climacograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Climacograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Climacograptidae
Climacograptus
Climacograptus is an Ordovician genus of graptolites.
See Graptolite and Climacograptus
Collagen
Collagen is the main structural protein in the extracellular matrix of a body's various connective tissues.
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
Cyclograptidae
Cyclograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Cyclograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Cyclograptidae
Cysticamaridae
Cysticamaridae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Cysticamaridae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Cysticamaridae
Dendrograptidae
Dendrograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Dendrograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Dendrograptidae
Deuterostome
Deuterostomes (from Greek) are bilaterian animals of the superphylum Deuterostomia, typically characterized by their anus forming before the mouth during embryonic development.
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Developmental biology
Developmental biology is the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop.
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Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma.
Dichograptidae
Dichograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Dichograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Dichograptidae
Dicranograptidae
Dicranograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Dicranograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Dicranograptidae
Dictyonema (graptolite)
Dictyonema is a genus of dendroid graptolites in the order Dendroidea.
See Graptolite and Dictyonema (graptolite)
Didymograptidae
Didymograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Didymograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Didymograptidae
Didymograptus
Didymograptus is an extinct genus of graptolites with four rows of cups. Graptolite and Didymograptus are Ordovician invertebrates.
See Graptolite and Didymograptus
Dimorphograptidae
Dimorphograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Dimorphograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Dimorphograptidae
Diplograptidae
Diplograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Diplograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Diplograptidae
Dithecodendridae
Dithecodendridae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Dithecodendridae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Dithecodendridae
Dob's Linn
Dob's Linn is a small steep valley in Dumfries and Galloway, just north of the A708 road between Moffat and Selkirk, in Scotland.
Dyfed
Dyfed is a preserved county in southwestern Wales.
Ediacaran
The Ediacaran is a geological period of the Neoproterozoic Era that spans 96 million years from the end of the Cryogenian Period at 635 Mya to the beginning of the Cambrian Period at 538.8 Mya.
Electron microscope
An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of electrons as a source of illumination.
See Graptolite and Electron microscope
Epibiont
An epibiont (from the Ancient Greek meaning "living on top of") is an organism that lives on the surface of another living organism, called the basibiont ("living underneath").
Evolutionary developmental biology
Evolutionary developmental biology (informally, evo-devo) is a field of biological research that compares the developmental processes of different organisms to infer how developmental processes evolved.
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Facies
In geology, a facies (same pronunciation and spelling in the plural) is a body of rock with distinctive characteristics.
Filter feeder
Filter feeders are aquatic animals that acquire nutrients by feeding on organic matters, food particles or smaller organisms (bacteria, microalgae and zooplanktons) suspended in water, typically by having the water pass over or through a specialized filtering organ.
See Graptolite and Filter feeder
Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
Geologic time scale
The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.
See Graptolite and Geologic time scale
Gill slit
Gill slits are individual openings to gills, i.e., multiple gill arches, which lack a single outer cover.
Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.
Glossograptidae
Glossograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Glossograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Glossograptidae
Glycine
Glycine (symbol Gly or G) is an amino acid that has a single hydrogen atom as its side chain.
Gondwana
Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.
Gonopore
A gonopore, sometimes called a gonadopore, is a genital pore in many invertebrates.
Graptolite
Graptolites are a group of colonial animals, members of the subclass Graptolithina within the class Pterobranchia. Graptolite and Graptolite are Cambrian first appearances, Cambrian invertebrates, Carboniferous extinctions, Carboniferous invertebrates, Devonian invertebrates, graptolites, Ordovician invertebrates, Paleozoic invertebrates, Permian invertebrates and Silurian invertebrates.
Graptolitha
Graptolitha is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae.
See Graptolite and Graptolitha
Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event
The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE), was an evolutionary radiation of animal life throughout the Ordovician period, 40 million years after the Cambrian explosion, whereby the distinctive Cambrian fauna fizzled out to be replaced with a Paleozoic fauna rich in suspension feeder and pelagic animals.
See Graptolite and Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event
Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Hanns Bruno Geinitz
Hanns Bruno Geinitz (16 October 1814 – 28 January 1900) was a German geologist, born at Altenburg, the capital of Saxe-Altenburg.
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Hedgehog signaling pathway
The Hedgehog signaling pathway is a signaling pathway that transmits information to embryonic cells required for proper cell differentiation.
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Hemichordate
Hemichordata is a phylum which consists of triploblastic, enterocoelomate, and bilaterally symmetrical marine deuterostome animals, generally considered the sister group of the echinoderms.
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Henry Alleyne Nicholson
Henry Alleyne Nicholson FRS FRSE FGS FLS (11 September 1844 – 19 January 1899) was a British palaeontologist and zoologist.
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Hirnantian
The Hirnantian is the final internationally recognized stage of the Ordovician Period of the Paleozoic Era.
Hydrozoa
Hydrozoa (hydrozoans) is a taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most of which inhabit saline water.
Ice age
An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
Incertae sedis
of uncertain placement or problematica is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.
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International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is a widely accepted convention in zoology that rules the formal scientific naming of organisms treated as animals.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
Isograptidae
Isograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Isograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Isograptidae
James Hall (paleontologist)
James Hall Jr. (September 12, 1811 – August 7, 1898) was an American geologist and paleontologist.
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Joachim Barrande
Joachim Barrande (11 August 1799 – 5 October 1883) was a French geologist and palaeontologist.
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John Hopkinson
John Hopkinson, FRS, (27 July 1849 – 27 August 1898) was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE (now the IET) twice in 1890 and 1896.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
La Chilca Formation
La Chilca Formation (Formación La Chilca) is a geological formation that crops out in the Precordillera of San Juan Province, Argentina.
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Lake District
The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region and national park in Cumbria, North West England.
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Larva
A larva (larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage.
Lasiograptidae
Lasiograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Lasiograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Lasiograptidae
Lilliput effect
The Lilliput effect is an observed decrease in animal body size in genera that have survived a major extinction.
See Graptolite and Lilliput effect
Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
List of graptolite genera
This list of graptolites is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be members of Graptolithina, excluding purely vernacular terms.
See Graptolite and List of graptolite genera
Logogram
In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek 'word', and 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme.
Mastigograptidae
Mastigograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Mastigograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Mastigograptidae
Mesopelagic zone
The mesopelagic zone (Greek μέσον, middle), also known as the middle pelagic or twilight zone, is the part of the pelagic zone that lies between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones.
See Graptolite and Mesopelagic zone
Mesozoic
The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.
Miaolingian
The Miaolingian is the third Series of the Cambrian Period, and was formally named in 2018.
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Michael Sars
Michael Sars (30 August 1805 – 22 October 1869) was a Norwegian theologian and biologist.
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Million years ago
Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to (i.e. years), or approximately 31.6 teraseconds.
See Graptolite and Million years ago
Mississippian (geology)
The Mississippian (also known as Lower Carboniferous or Early Carboniferous) is a subperiod in the geologic timescale or a subsystem of the geologic record.
See Graptolite and Mississippian (geology)
Monograptidae
Monograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites of the order Graptoloidea. Graptolite and Monograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Monograptidae
Monopodial
Vascular plants with monopodial growth habits grow upward from a single point.
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Neodiplograptidae
Neodiplograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Neodiplograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Neodiplograptidae
Nervous system
In biology, the nervous system is the highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body.
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Neural tube
In the developing chordate (including vertebrates), the neural tube is the embryonic precursor to the central nervous system, which is made up of the brain and spinal cord.
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Noel Benson
William Noel Benson FRS FRGS (26 December 1885 – 20 August 1957) was an English-born research geologist and academic active first in Australia and then New Zealand.
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Normalograptidae
Normalograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Normalograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Normalograptidae
Ontogeny
Ontogeny (also ontogenesis) is the origination and development of an organism (both physical and psychological, e.g., moral development), usually from the time of fertilization of the egg to adult.
Ordovician
The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.
Orthocone
An orthocone is the long, cone-shaped shell belonging to several species of ancient nautiloid cephalopod—the prehistoric ancestors of today's marine cephalopod mollusks, including the cuttlefishes, nautili, octopi and squids.
Oviparity
Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zygotes outside the body (known as laying or spawning) in metabolically independent incubation organs known as eggs, which nurture the embryo into moving offsprings known as hatchlings with little or no embryonic development within the mother.
Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
Pelagic zone
The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean and can be further divided into regions by depth.
See Graptolite and Pelagic zone
Permian
The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.
Permineralization
Permineralization is a process of fossilization of bones and tissues in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms.
See Graptolite and Permineralization
Photic zone
The photic zone (or euphotic zone, epipelagic zone, or sunlight zone) is the uppermost layer of a body of water that receives sunlight, allowing phytoplankton to perform photosynthesis.
See Graptolite and Photic zone
Plankton
Plankton are the diverse collection of organisms that drift in water (or air) but are unable to actively propel themselves against currents (or wind).
Plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.
Planula
A planula is the free-swimming, flattened, ciliated, bilaterally symmetric larval form of various cnidarian species and also in some species of Ctenophores, which are not related to cnidarians at all.
Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pC, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.
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Pseudofossil
Pseudofossils are inorganic objects, markings, or impressions that might be mistaken for fossils.
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Pterobranchia
Pterobranchia, members of which are often called pterobranchs, is a class of small worm-shaped animals.
See Graptolite and Pterobranchia
Pterograptidae
Pterograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Pterograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Pterograptidae
Pteropoda
Pteropoda (common name pteropods, from the Greek meaning "wing-foot") are specialized free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropods.
Pyrite
The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron (II) disulfide).
Retiolitidae
Retiolitidae is an extinct family of graptolites characterized by meshwork-like tubaria. Graptolite and Retiolitidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Retiolitidae
Rhabdopleura
Rhabdopleura is a genus of colonial sessile hemichordates belonging to the Pterobranchia class. Graptolite and Rhabdopleura are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Rhabdopleura
Rhabdopleura normani
Rhabdopleura normani is a small, marine species of worm-shaped animal known as a pterobranch.
See Graptolite and Rhabdopleura normani
Rhabdopleurida
Rhabdopleurida is one of three orders in the class Pterobranchia, which are small, worm-shaped animals, are the only surviving graptolites.
See Graptolite and Rhabdopleurida
Roman Kozłowski
Roman Stanisław Jakub Kozłowski (1 February 1889 – 2 May 1977) was a Polish palaeontologist, best known for his work on graptolites.
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Rowing
Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion.
Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Saccoglossus
Saccoglossus is a genus of acorn worm (Class Enteropneusta).
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Saw
A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire, or chain with a hard toothed edge used to cut through material.
Sea butterfly
The Thecosomata (collective/plural: thecosomes, meaning "case/shell-body"), or sea butterflies, are a taxonomic suborder of small, pelagic, free-swimming sea snails known as holoplanktonic opisthobranch gastropod mollusks, in the order Pteropoda (also included within the informal group Opisthobranchia).
See Graptolite and Sea butterfly
Sediment
Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.
Serine
Serine (symbol Ser or S) is an α-amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins.
Sessility (motility)
Sessility is the biological property of an organism describing its lack of a means of self-locomotion.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
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Shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.
Sigmagraptidae
Sigmagraptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Sigmagraptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Sigmagraptidae
Silurian
The Silurian is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya.
Sinograptidae
Sinograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Sinograptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Sinograptidae
Snail
A snail is a shelled gastropod.
Southern Uplands
The Southern Uplands (Na Monaidhean a Deas) are the southernmost and least populous of mainland Scotland's three major geographic areas (the others being the Central Lowlands and the Highlands).
See Graptolite and Southern Uplands
Stolon
In biology, stolons (from Latin stolō, genitive stolōnis – "branch"), also known as runners, are horizontal connections between parts of an organism.
Stratum
In geology and related fields, a stratum (strata) is a layer of rock or sediment characterized by certain lithologic properties or attributes that distinguish it from adjacent layers from which it is separated by visible surfaces known as either bedding surfaces or bedding planes.
Sue Rigby
Sue Rigby is Professor of paleontology and Vice-Chancellor of Bath Spa University.
Sven Axel Tullberg
Sven Axel Theodore Tullberg (27 February 1852 – 15 December 1886) was a Swedish botanist, palaeontologist and geologist.
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Sympodial branching
Sympodial growth is a bifurcating branching pattern where one branch develops more strongly than the other, resulting in the stronger branches forming the primary shoot and the weaker branches appearing laterally.
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Systema Naturae
(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.
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Tectonics
Tectonics are the processes that result in the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.
Tertiary
Tertiary is an obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.
Testicle
A testicle or testis (testes) is the male gonad in all bilaterians, including humans.
Tetragraptidae
Tetragraptidae is an extinct family of graptolites from the Floian to Darriwilian epochs of the Ordovician Period. Graptolite and Tetragraptidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Tetragraptidae
Thomas Sergeant Hall
Thomas Sergeant Hall (23 December 1858 – 21 December 1915) was an Australian geologist and biologist, recipient of The Murchison Fund in 1901.
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Threonine
Threonine (symbol Thr or T) is an amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins.
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology (or TIP) published by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas Press, is a definitive multi-authored work of some 50 volumes, written by more than 300 paleontologists, and covering every phylum, class, order, family, and genus of fossil and extant (still living) invertebrate animals.
See Graptolite and Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
Triassic
The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.
Tuning fork
A tuning fork is an acoustic resonator in the form of a two-pronged fork with the prongs (''tines'') formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic metal (usually steel).
See Graptolite and Tuning fork
Victoria (state)
Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.
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Vladimir Beklemishev (zoologist)
Vladimir Nikolayevich Beklemishev (Владимир Николаевич Беклемишев;, Hrodna4 September 1962, Moscow) was a Russian zoologist and entomologist.
See Graptolite and Vladimir Beklemishev (zoologist)
Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Welsh Marches
The Welsh Marches (Y Mers) is an imprecisely defined area along the border between England and Wales in the United Kingdom.
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William M'Intosh
William Carmichael M'Intosh LLD (also spelt McIntosh; 10 October 1838, St Andrews – 1 April 1931, St Andrews) was a Scottish physician and marine zoologist.
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Wimanicrustidae
Wimanicrustidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Wimanicrustidae are graptolites.
See Graptolite and Wimanicrustidae
Wuliuan
The Wuliuan stage is the fifth stage of the Cambrian, and the first stage of the Miaolingian Series of the Cambrian.
Zooid
A zooid or zoöid is a single animal that is part of a colonial animal.
Zooplankton
Zooplankton are the animal (or heterotrophic) component of the planktonic community (the "zoo-" prefix comes from), having to consume other organisms to thrive.
See Graptolite and Zooplankton
See also
Carboniferous extinctions
- Acutichiton
- Alethopteris
- Annularia
- Calamitaceae
- Callipteridium
- Carbactinoceras
- Craniopsidae
- Diplocercidae
- Forbesiocrinus
- Gilbertsocrinus
- Graptolite
- Hadronectoridae
- Holopea
- Iniopterygiformes
- Lepidodendrales
- Lyginopteridaceae
- Lyginopteridales
- Macroneuropteris
- Moresnetiaceae
- Neuropteris
- Pleurodictyum
- Sinotectirostrum
- Strophomenida
- Synziphosurina
Carboniferous invertebrates
- Graptolite
- Graptolites
- Hederellid
- Hederopsis
- Helenodora
- Titusvillia
Devonian invertebrates
- Graptolite
- Graptolites
Graptolites
- Abrograptidae
- Acanthograptidae
- Anisograptidae
- Axonophora
- Climacograptidae
- Cyclograptidae
- Cysticamaridae
- Dendrograptidae
- Dendroidea
- Dichograptidae
- Dicranograptidae
- Didymograptidae
- Dimorphograptidae
- Diplograptidae
- Dithecodendridae
- Glossograptidae
- Graptolite
- Graptoloidea
- Isograptidae
- Lasiograptidae
- Mastigograptidae
- Monograptidae
- Neodiplograptidae
- Normalograptidae
- Pterograptidae
- Retiolitidae
- Rhabdopleura
- Sigmagraptidae
- Sinograptidae
- Tetragraptidae
- Tetragraptus approximatus
- Wimanicrustidae
Ordovician invertebrates
- Dendrograptus
- Didymograptus
- Graptolite
- Graptolites
- Hazeliidae
- Nectocarididae
- Palaeoconchus
- Scenella
- Seputus
- Stromatoporoidea
- Tetragraptus approximatus
- Tymbochoos
Paleozoic invertebrates
- Ceramoporidae
- Crinoid
- Crinozoa
- Fistuliporidae
- Graptolite
- Graptolites
- Hyolitha
- Hyolithida
- Ladatheca
- Orthotheca
- Orthothecida
- Orthothecidae
- Rhinoporidae
Permian invertebrates
- Cryptostomata
- Graptolite
- Graptolites
Silurian invertebrates
- Graptolite
- Graptolites
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graptolite
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