Geragnostus crassus

Geragnostus crassus

Vizcaïno, Daniel · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 7.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 482.9 Mya to 475.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 471.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482.9 Mya475.6 Mya486.9 Mya470.8 Mya

5 occurrences of Geragnostus crassus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

5 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.

Found in

4 formations

Latorp — 58.00°N, 14.00°ELatorp — 59.24°N, 14.94°EBjorkasholmen — 59.14°N, 11.18°ECeratopyge — 57.00°N, 17.00°ENantsinkwan — 28.79°N, 109.29°E

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The named rock units Geragnostus crassus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Geragnostus crassus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Geragnostus crassus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

60 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Geragnostus crassus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

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

3 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Geragnostus crassus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Vizcaïno, Daniel
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Geragnostus crassus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

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What may have been alongside itGeragnostus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tjernvik 1956