Biology:Tetragraptidae

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Short description: Extinct family of graptolites

Tetragraptidae
Temporal range: Floian to Darriwilian
Scientific classification
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Graptoloidea
Family:
Tetragraptidae

Frech, 1897

Tetragraptidae is an extinct family of graptolites from the Floian to Darriwilian epochs of the Ordovician Period.[1]

Genera

List of genera from Maletz (2014):[2]

  • Corymbograptus Obut & Sobolevskaya, 1964
  • Paratetragraptus Obut, 1957
  • Pendeograptus Bouček & Přibyl, 1951
  • Phyllograptus Hall, 1858
  • Pseudophyllograptus Cooper & Fortey, 1982
  • Pseudotrigonograptus Mu & Lee, 1958
  • Tetragraptus Salter, 1863
  • Tristichograptus Jackson & Bulman, 1970

References

  1. Maletz, Jörg (2017). Graptolite Paleobiology. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781118515617. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Graptolite+Paleobiology-p-9781118515617. 
  2. Maletz, Jörg (2014). "The classification of the Pterobranchia (Cephalodiscida and Graptolithina)". Bulletin of Geosciences 89 (3): 477–540. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1465. ISSN 1214-1119. 

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