Kormagnostus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AgnostidaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Agnostidae
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 495.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 486.85 Mya.
205 occurrences of Kormagnostus 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
205 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
22 formations
- Huaqiao Formation26
- Riley Formation26
- Zhumabai Formation25
- Deadwood Formation24
- Shallow Bay Formation · Cow Head Group23
- Machari Formation · Yeongwol Group22
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The named rock units Kormagnostus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kormagnostus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Kormagnostus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
244 taxa- Blountia23 sites
- Pseudagnostina douvillei21 sites
- Tricrepicephalus coria20 sites
- Dicellomus19 sites
- Cedaria18 sites
- Coosella17 sites
- Kingstonia walcotti17 sites
- Modocia16 sites
- Crepicephalus15 sites
- Hardyoides tenerus13 sites
- Menomonia13 sites
- Nahannagnostus nganasanicus13 sites
- Coosia alethes11 sites
- Arapahoia10 sites
- Arcuolimbus convexus10 sites
- Catillicephala rotunda10 sites
- Crepicephalus auratus10 sites
- Hypagnostus parvifrons10 sites
- Kingstonia10 sites
- Pearylandia10 sites
- Tomagnostella exsculpta10 sites
- Uncaspis10 sites
- Agnostus9 sites
- Bynumia9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 118 sites for Kormagnostus, 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
24 references- The Faunas of the Riley Formation in Central Texas26
- Ergaliev and Ergaliev, 200825
- Marjuman (Cambrian) agnostoid trilobites of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland23
- Upper Cambrian agnostoid trilobites from the Machari Formation,Yongwol, Korea21
- Agnostid biostratigraphy across the Middle-Upper Cambrian boundary in Hunan, China20
- Trilobites, Biostratigraphy, and Lithostratigraphy of the Crepicephalus and Aphelaspis zones, Lower Deadwood formation (Marjuman and Steptoean Stages, Upper Cambrian), Black Hills, South Dakota13
- Molluscs of the Holm Dal Formation (late Middle Cambrian), central North Greenland12
- Trilobites of the Marjuman and Steptoean stages (Upper Cambrian), Rabbitkettle Formation, southern Mackenzie Mountains, northwest Canada11
- Trilobites from the Cedarina dakotaensis zone, lowermost part of the Deadwood Formation, (Marjuman Stage, Upper Cambrian), Black Hills South Dakota10
- Upper Cambrian faunas from the northwest Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. Part 110
- Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and trilobite fauna of Taoyuan, NW Hunan6
- Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician Trilobites from the Marathon Uplift, Texas6
Each of the 205 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. 12 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 Kormagnostus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itAgnostidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Resser 1938