Lotagnostus americanus
No picture of Lotagnostus americanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lotagnostus americanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LotagnostusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Agnostidae
Time the record covers
At least 2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 488.9 Mya to 486.85 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 493.5 Mya to 477.1 Mya.
4 occurrences of Lotagnostus americanus 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian75%
- Ordovician25%
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
2 formations
- Shallow Bay Formation · Cow Head Group1
- Levis Formation1
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The named rock units Lotagnostus americanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lotagnostus americanus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Lotagnostus americanus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Bienvillia corax2 sites
- Heterocaryon tuberculatum2 sites
- Leiocoryphe occipitalis2 sites
- Onchonotus richardsoni2 sites
- Peracheilus communis2 sites
- Pseudagnostus gyps2 sites
- Ptychopleurites dunbari2 sites
- Acheilus limbatus1 site
- Agnostus orion1 site
- Arcifimbria brevifrons1 site
- Calculites microps1 site
- Elkanaspis unisulcata1 site
- Hungaia1 site
- Hungaia magnifica1 site
- Keithia1 site
- Keithiella cylindrica1 site
- Lauzonella broeggeri1 site
- Levisella1 site
- Levisella affinis1 site
- Levisella brevifrons1 site
- Loganellus macropleurus1 site
- Loganellus similis1 site
- Palaeostrophia1 site
- Pseudagnostus canadensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lotagnostus americanus, 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- Upper Cambrian trilobites from the Levis Conglomerate2
- Sunwaptan (Upper Cambrian) trilobites of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland, Canada1
- Further new Cambrian bellerophont gastropods1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Lotagnostus americanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lotagnostus americanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lotagnostus americanus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itLotagnostus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1860)