Glyptagnostus

Glyptagnostus

Allison R. Palmer · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
GlyptagnostinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida

Time the record covers

At most 52 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 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 96 of 96 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 96 occurrences540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences520–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 1 occurrence502–500 Mya — about 2 occurrences500–498 Mya — about 11 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 18 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 39 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 18 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 1 occurrence489–488 Mya — about 1 occurrence488–486 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences540 Mya486 Mya

96 occurrences of Glyptagnostus 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

96 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

15 formations

Huaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EHuaqiao — 28.72°N, 109.97°EHuaqiao — 29.10°N, 110.92°EZhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EHuayansi — 28.82°N, 118.60°EHuayansi — 28.90°N, 118.50°EChopko — 68.92°N, 88.67°EConasauga — 33.00°N, 87.00°WConasauga — 34.00°N, 86.00°WNopah — 40.00°N, 115.00°WNopah — 39.00°N, 115.00°WRabbitkettle — 62.70°N, 128.38°WRabbitkettle — 63.37°N, 128.60°WMachari — 37.18°N, 128.48°EWoods Hollow Boulders — 30.20°N, 103.24°WLos Sombreros — 31.55°S, 68.52°WRaiff Limestone — 39.40°N, 114.78°WSwarbrick — 38.00°N, 116.00°WShallow Bay — 49.92°N, 57.90°WAlum Shale — 58.55°N, 13.33°EGeorgina Limestone — 23.05°S, 138.95°E

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The named rock units Glyptagnostus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glyptagnostus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Glyptagnostus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

55 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Glyptagnostus, 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

17 references

Each of the 96 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. 5 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Glyptagnostus

Credit
Allison R. Palmer
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Glyptagnostus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itGlyptagnostinae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whitehouse 1936