Micragnostus calvus
No picture of Micragnostus calvus 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 Micragnostus calvus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicragnostusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Agnostidae
Time the record covers
At most 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Micragnostus calvus 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
4 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Micragnostus calvus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Micragnostus calvus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Micragnostus calvus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Lingulella3 sites
- Bellerophon2 sites
- Hyolithes2 sites
- Leptoplastides depressus2 sites
- Primitia2 sites
- Rhabdinopora flabelliformis2 sites
- Septadella jackmanae2 sites
- Acrotreta1 site
- Apatokephalus serratus1 site
- Archaeorthis wimani1 site
- Asaphellus homfrayi1 site
- Bienvillia1 site
- Conophrys pusilla1 site
- Dichelepyge1 site
- Dictyonema1 site
- Dikelokephalina1 site
- Eurytreta sabrinae1 site
- Geragnostus1 site
- Leptoplastides salteri1 site
- Macrocystella mariae1 site
- Macropyge1 site
- Niobe (Niobella) homfrayi1 site
- Niobella (Niobe) homfrayi smithi1 site
- Orometopus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Micragnostus calvus, 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- The Tremadoc rocks of the Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire2
- On the occurrence of Tremadoc shales in the Tortworth Inlier (Gloucestershire), with notes of the fossils1
- The Shineton Shales of the Wrekin District1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Micragnostus calvus 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 Micragnostus calvus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Micragnostus calvus 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 itMicragnostus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lake 1906)