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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

Cystograptus ancestralisAD, Štorch (1985) PŠ162
Cystograptus ancestralisAD, Štorch (1985) PŠ156
Cystograptus ancestralisAD, Štorch (1985) PŠ160
Cystograptus ancestralisAD, Štorch (1985) PŠ154
Cystograptus ancestralisŠtorch (1985), Pl. IV, fig. 1, 4, text. fig. 3A PŠ73
Cystograptus tridens (Manck, 1923)Štorch (2023), Fig. 6L PŠ4379
Cystograptus vesiculosusAD, Štorch (1985) PŠ159
Cystograptus vesiculosusŠtorch (1985), Pl. II, fig. 7 PŠ90
Cystograptus vesiculosusAD, Štorch (1985) PŠ178
Cystograptus vesiculosus BB593
Cystograptus vesiculosusAD, Štorch (1985) PŠ155
Cystograptus vesiculosusŠtorch (1985), Pl. IV, fig. 8, text. fig 3F PŠ184
Cystograptus vesiculosusŠtorch (2023), Fig. 6I PŠ4384
Cystograptus vesiculosusŠtorch (1985), Pl. II, fig. 1, text. fig 3G (PŠ 169/2); Pl. IV, fig. 7, text. fig 3E (PŠ 169/3) PŠ169
Cystograptus vesiculosusŠtorch (1985), Pl. II, fig. 5; Štorch (1982), Pl. II, fig. 7 PŠ63
Demirastrites convolutusŠtorch (1998), Pl. 18, fig. 1; Text-fig. 11, figs. 7B PŠ695
Demirastrites convolutus BB571
Demirastrites pectinatus p3818
Demirastrites pectinatus RH36
Demirastrites pectinatus BB615

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