| Order Mastigograptida |
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| The Mastigograptida, erected by Bates and Urbanek (2002) as a separate order of graptolites (Graptolithoidea) are a small group of sessile graptolites. The only family Mastigograptidae Bates and Urbanek, 2002, contains two genera, namely Mastigograptus Ruedemann,1908 (Upper Cambrian - Silurian) and Micrograptus Eisenack,1974 (Lower Ordovician - Lower Silurian). |
| Bates and Urbanek (2002, p. 458) gave the following diagnosis of the Mastigograptida: |
| "Cylindrical sicula, budding in triads, dendroid habitus but stipes produced by chain of corticalized stolothecae with thin-walled free thecae, displaying random arrangements of oblique sutures, and not revealing a distinct dimorphism." |
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| Text based on: |
| Bates, D.E.B. and Urbanek, A. 2002. The ultrastructure, development, and systematic position of the graptolite genus Mastigograptus. - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47, 3, 445-458. |
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