Agnostus orion

No picture of Agnostus orion was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Agnostus orion, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AgnostusPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Agnostidae

Time the record covers

At most 3.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 490.2 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences490.7 Mya486.35 Mya

2 occurrences of Agnostus orion on record, most of them in the Cambrian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

2 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Agnostus orion and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Agnostus orion and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Agnostus orion, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Agnostus orion was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Agnostus orion, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAgnostus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1860