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The world's longest graptolite?
David. K. Loydell & Robert F. Loveridge
Geological Journal  (2001) 36, 1, 55-57
ABSTRACT:

"An incomplete specimen of Stimulograptus halli 1.45 m long is recorded from the Aberystwyth Grifts Formation north of Clarach, western mid-Wales. This is the longest graptoloid graptolite known. Assuming a growth rate similar to that of modern Rhabdopleura it lived for at least 25 years."


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