Mastigograptidae
Classification
Phylum: Hemichordata
Class: Graptolithina
Order: Mastigograptida
Family: Mastigograptidae (Bates & Urbanek, 2002)
Cincinnatian Genera: Mastigograptus
- Geologic Range
Cambrian – Silurian
- Common Paleoecology
Extinct, passively mobile planktonic suspension feeders
- Description of the Family
- Cylindrical sicula
- Budding in triads
- Dendroid habitus
- Stipes produced by chain of corticalized stolo−thecae with thin−walled free thecae
- Random arrangements of oblique sutures
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Bates and Urbanek (2002):
Bates and Urbanek (2002):
- As for the order-
Diagnosis.—Cylindrical sicula, budding in triads, dendroid habitus but stipes produced by chain of corticalized stolo− thecae with thin−walled free thecae, displaying random arrangements of oblique sutures, and not revealing a distinct dimorphism.
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Mastigograptus
