| Graptolithina
Graptolithina is the a class in the animal phylum Hemichordata, the members of which are known as Graptolites. Graptolites are fossil colonial animals known chiefly from the Upper Cambrian through the Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian). A possible early graptolite, Chaunograptus, is known from the Middle Cambrian.
The name graptolite comes from the Greek graptos, meaning "written", and lithos, meaning "rock", as many graptolite fossils resemble hieroglyphs written on the rock. Linnaeus originally regarded them as 'pictures resembling fossils rather than true fossils', though later workers, supposed them to be related to the hydrozoans.[citation needed] More recent work places them near the pterobranchs, possibly within.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graptolite
On-line reference: Benton a Harper: Introduction to the Paleobiology
Zdroj: Benton a Harper: Introduction to the Paleobiology
Coronograptus gregarius | Štorch (1988), text. fig. 21 | | | PŠ245 | Coronograptus gregarius | Štorch (1988), Pl. IV, fig. 2, 3, text. fig. 2J | | | PŠ248 | Coronograptus gregarius | | | | PŠ276 | Coronograptus gregarius | | | | PŠ209 | Coronograptus gregarius | Štorch (1988), Pl. IV, fig. 1 | | | PŠ246 | Coronograptus gregarius | Štorch (1998), Pl. 7, fig. 6; Text-fig. 7, fig. 7C | | | PŠ788 | Coronograptus gregarius | | | | PŠ208 | Coronograptus gregarius gregarius | | | | PŠ746 | Coronograptus gregarius gregarius | Štorch (1998), Pl. 7, fig. 5; Text-fig. 7, figs. 7B | | | PŠ809 | Coronograptus gregarius maxiculus | | | | PŠ257 | Coronograptus gregarius maxiculus | | | | PŠ253 | Coronograptus maxiculus | Štorch (1998), Text-fig. 7, fig 6B | | | PŠ754 | Coronograptus maxiculus | Štorch (1998), Pl. 7, fig. 2; text-fig. 7, fig. 6A | | | PŠ764 | Corymbograptus imminutus | Bouèek (1973), Pl. IX, fig. 5, text. fig. 16h, i | | | BB59 | Corymbograptus imminutus | | | | BB358 | Corymbograptus imminutus | Bouèek (1973), text. fig. 16j | | | BB60 | Corymbograptus retroflexus | | | | XA763 | Corymbograptus retroflexus | | | | BB329 | Corymbograptus retroflexus | | | | PP1419 | Corymbograptus retroflexus | | | | PP1411 |
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