{"id":4728,"date":"2014-01-11T16:29:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T21:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/?page_id=4728"},"modified":"2014-10-15T16:27:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T20:27:42","slug":"graptolithina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/hemichordata\/graptolithina\/","title":{"rendered":"Graptolithina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Classification<\/strong><br \/>\nPhylum: <a title=\"Hemichordata\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/hemichordata\/\"> Hemichordata<\/a><br \/>\nClass: Graptolithina (Bronn, 1846)<br \/>\nCincinnatian Orders: <a title=\"Graptoloidea\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/hemichordata\/graptolithina\/graptoloidea\/\">Graptoloidea<\/a>, <a title=\"Mastigograptida \" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/hemichordata\/graptolithina\/mastigograptida\/\">Mastigograptida <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Geologic Range<\/strong><br \/>\nMiddle Cambrian &#8211; Carboniferous <\/p>\n<p><strong>Common Paleoecology<\/strong><br \/>\nGraptolithina is an extinct class of passively mobile planktonic suspension feeders<\/p>\n<p><strong>Characteristics of the Class<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chitinous exoskeleton with characteristic growth bands and growth lines in periderm<\/li>\n<li>Thecae arranged in single or double row along stipes<\/li>\n<li> Rhabdosomes originating in a conical sicula<\/li>\n<li>Sessile or epiplanktonic<\/li>\n<li>Attached by nema (or virgula) from apex of sicula<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[accordions title=&#8221;&#8221; disabled=&#8221;false&#8221; active=&#8221;1&#8243; autoheight=&#8221;false&#8221; collapsible=&#8221;true&#8221;] [accordion title=&#8221;Published Descriptions&#8221;]<br \/>\n<em>Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part V (1955)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colonial marine organisms that secrete a chitinous exoskeleton with characteristic growth bands and growth lines in periderm; thecae arranged in single or double row along stipes, or rarely in less regular aggregates, in some orders polymorphic and related to a chitinized stolon system; rhabdosomes originating in a conical sicula, sessile or epiplanktonic, attached by nema (or virgula) from apex of sicula; stipes free or rarely encrusting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/accordion] [\/accordions]<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"height: 300px; width: 800px;\" align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border-right: 15px solid white; float: left; width: 250px;\">\n<p align=\"center\">Graptoloidea<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/hemichordata\/graptolithina\/graptoloidea\/\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/arnheimograptus-250-black.png?resize=250%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-right: 15px solid white; float: left; width: 250px;\">\n<p align=\"center\">Mastigograptida<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/hemichordata\/graptolithina\/mastigograptida\/\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/mastigograptus-tenuiramosus-250-black.png?resize=250%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classification Phylum: Hemichordata Class: Graptolithina (Bronn, 1846) Cincinnatian Orders: Graptoloidea, Mastigograptida Geologic Range Middle Cambrian &#8211; Carboniferous Common Paleoecology Graptolithina is an extinct class of passively mobile planktonic suspension feeders Characteristics of the Class Chitinous exoskeleton with characteristic growth bands &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/hemichordata\/graptolithina\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Graptolithina<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4728","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3T22h-1eg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9687,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4728\/revisions\/9687"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}