| 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
Desmograptus callograptoides | | | | XA338 | Desmograptus callograptoides | | | | BB301 | Dicellograptus laticeps | | | | MD367 | Dicellograptus laticeps | Štorch (1989), Pl. I, fig. 6, text. fig. 1F | | | PŠ311 | Dicellograptus laticeps | | | | PB1105 | Dicellograptus laticeps | | | | PŠ312 | Dicellograptus laticeps | | | | MD357 | Dicellograptus laticeps | Štorch (1989), Pl. I, fig. 1, text. fig. 1G | | | PŠ314 | Dicellograptus laticeps | | | | PŠ313 | Dicellograptus laticeps | | | | MD387 | Dicellograptus laticeps | | | | MD385 | Dicellograptus morrisi | | | | BB653 | Dicranograptus clingani | Havlíèek a Vanìk (1966), Pl. XIII, fig. 1 | | | YA85 | Dicranograptus clingani | Havlíèek a Vanìk (1966), Pl. XIII, fig. 2 | | | YA85 | Dictonema delicatulum | | | | p1423 | Dictyonema balticum | Kraft (1982), Pl. 3, fig. 5, 6 | | | MŠ7181 | Dictyonema balticum | Kraft (1982), Pl. 2, fig. 4 | | | MŠ7187 | Dictyonema balticum | | | | MŠ7179 | Dictyonema delicatulum | | | | p779 | Dictyonema delicatulum | Kraft (1982), Pl. 3, fig. 3, 4 | | | MŠ7184 |
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