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Graptolite, the Glossary

Index Graptolite

Graptolites are a group of colonial animals, members of the subclass Graptolithina within the class Pterobranchia.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 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) »

  2. Carboniferous extinctions
  3. Carboniferous invertebrates
  4. Devonian invertebrates
  5. Graptolites
  6. Ordovician invertebrates
  7. Paleozoic invertebrates
  8. Permian invertebrates
  9. Silurian invertebrates

Abereiddy

Abereiddy (Abereddi) is a hamlet in the county of Pembrokeshire, in west Wales.

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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.

See Graptolite and Acorn worm

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).

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Amino acid

Amino acids are organic compounds that contain both amino and carboxylic acid functional groups.

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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.

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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.

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Asexual reproduction

Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that does not involve the fusion of gametes or change in the number of chromosomes.

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Asymmetry

Asymmetry is the absence of, or a violation of, symmetry (the property of an object being invariant to a transformation, such as reflection).

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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.

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Axonophora

Axonophora is an extinct suborder of graptolites. Graptolite and Axonophora are graptolites.

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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.

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Biomineralization

Biomineralization, also written biomineralisation, is the process by which living organisms produce minerals, often resulting in hardened or stiffened mineralized tissues.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Cambrian

The Cambrian is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon.

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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.

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Carbonaceous film (paleontology)

A carbonaceous film or carbon film is an organism outline of a fossil.

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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.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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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.

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Cenozoic

The Cenozoic is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history.

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Cephalodiscida

Cephalodiscida is one of two orders in the class Pterobranchia, which are small, worm-shaped animals.

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Cephalodiscus

Cephalodiscus is a genus of hemichordates in the monotypic family Cephalodiscidae of the order Cephalodiscida.

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Chaunograptus

Chaunograptus is a genus of putative graptolite known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.

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Chert

Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).

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Chitin

Chitin (C8H13O5N)n is a long-chain polymer of ''N''-acetylglucosamine, an amide derivative of glucose.

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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.

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Class (biology)

In biological classification, class (classis) is a taxonomic rank, as well as a taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank.

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Climacograptidae

Climacograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Climacograptidae are graptolites.

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Climacograptus

Climacograptus is an Ordovician genus of graptolites.

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Collagen

Collagen is the main structural protein in the extracellular matrix of a body's various connective tissues.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Dyfed

Dyfed is a preserved county in southwestern Wales.

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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.

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Electron microscope

An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of electrons as a source of illumination.

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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").

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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.

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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.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Geologic time scale

The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.

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Gill slit

Gill slits are individual openings to gills, i.e., multiple gill arches, which lack a single outer cover.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Glossograptidae

Glossograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Glossograptidae are graptolites.

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Glycine

Glycine (symbol Gly or G) is an amino acid that has a single hydrogen atom as its side chain.

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Gondwana

Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.

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Gonopore

A gonopore, sometimes called a gonadopore, is a genital pore in many invertebrates.

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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.

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Graptolitha

Graptolitha is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae.

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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.

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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.

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Hydrozoa

Hydrozoa (hydrozoans) is a taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most of which inhabit saline water.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Lasiograptidae

Lasiograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Lasiograptidae are graptolites.

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Lilliput effect

The Lilliput effect is an observed decrease in animal body size in genera that have survived a major extinction.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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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.

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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.

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Mastigograptidae

Mastigograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Mastigograptidae are graptolites.

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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.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.

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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.

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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.

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Monograptidae

Monograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites of the order Graptoloidea. Graptolite and Monograptidae are graptolites.

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Monopodial

Vascular plants with monopodial growth habits grow upward from a single point.

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Nancy Kirk

Dr.

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Neodiplograptidae

Neodiplograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Neodiplograptidae are graptolites.

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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.

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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.

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Ordovician

The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.

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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.

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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.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Paleozoic

The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Pelagic zone

The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean and can be further divided into regions by depth.

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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.

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Permineralization

Permineralization is a process of fossilization of bones and tissues in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms.

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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.

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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).

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Plant

Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.

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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.

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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.

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Pterograptidae

Pterograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Pterograptidae are graptolites.

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Pteropoda

Pteropoda (common name pteropods, from the Greek meaning "wing-foot") are specialized free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropods.

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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).

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Retiolitidae

Retiolitidae is an extinct family of graptolites characterized by meshwork-like tubaria. Graptolite and Retiolitidae are graptolites.

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Rhabdopleura

Rhabdopleura is a genus of colonial sessile hemichordates belonging to the Pterobranchia class. Graptolite and Rhabdopleura are graptolites.

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Rhabdopleura normani

Rhabdopleura normani is a small, marine species of worm-shaped animal known as a pterobranch.

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Rhabdopleurida

Rhabdopleurida is one of three orders in the class Pterobranchia, which are small, worm-shaped animals, are the only surviving graptolites.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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Serine

Serine (symbol Ser or S) is an α-amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins.

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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.

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Sigmagraptidae

Sigmagraptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Sigmagraptidae are graptolites.

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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.

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Sinograptidae

Sinograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites. Graptolite and Sinograptidae are graptolites.

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Snail

A snail is a shelled gastropod.

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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).

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Stolon

In biology, stolons (from Latin stolō, genitive stolōnis – "branch"), also known as runners, are horizontal connections between parts of an organism.

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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.

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Sue Rigby

Sue Rigby is Professor of paleontology and Vice-Chancellor of Bath Spa University.

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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.

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Tertiary

Tertiary is an obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.

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Testicle

A testicle or testis (testes) is the male gonad in all bilaterians, including humans.

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Tetragraptidae

Tetragraptidae is an extinct family of graptolites from the Floian to Darriwilian epochs of the Ordovician Period. Graptolite and Tetragraptidae are graptolites.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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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.

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Wuliuan

The Wuliuan stage is the fifth stage of the Cambrian, and the first stage of the Miaolingian Series of the Cambrian.

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Zooid

A zooid or zoöid is a single animal that is part of a colonial animal.

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Zooplankton

Zooplankton are the animal (or heterotrophic) component of the planktonic community (the "zoo-" prefix comes from), having to consume other organisms to thrive.

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See also

Carboniferous extinctions

Carboniferous invertebrates

Devonian invertebrates

Graptolites

Ordovician invertebrates

Paleozoic invertebrates

Permian invertebrates

Silurian invertebrates

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graptolite

Also known as Dendroidea, Graptolit, Graptolites, Graptolith, Graptolithina, Graptolithinia, Graptolitic, Graptolitos, Graptoloid, Graptoloidea, Graptoloids, Graptolyte, Stipe (graptolite), Theca (graptolite), Tubarium.

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