Ptychagnostus intermedius

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychagnostusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ptychagnostus
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ptychagnostus
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ptychagnostus
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ptychagnostidae

Time the record covers

At least 800 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 505.3 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 509.7 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 22 of 22 occurrencesCambrian510–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 1 occurrence506–506 Mya — about 1 occurrence506–505 Mya — about 1 occurrence505–505 Mya — about 2 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 2 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 2 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences505.3 Mya – 504.5 Mya510.2 Mya496.5 Mya

22 occurrences of Ptychagnostus intermedius 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

22 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

11 formations

Wheeler — 39.52°N, 113.00°WWheeler — 39.22°N, 113.40°WAktas — 43.53°N, 69.95°EBlacksmith — 41.30°N, 111.72°WBlacksmith — 41.43°N, 111.94°WWheeler Shale — 39.54°N, 112.92°WShallow Bay — 49.25°N, 65.57°WInca — 19.50°S, 138.93°EGeddes Limestone — 39.50°N, 115.98°WSecret Canyon — 39.40°N, 115.95°WLincoln Peak — 39.12°N, 114.25°WAlojamiento — 32.28°S, 69.07°WHenson Gletscher — 80.25°N, 62.50°W

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

Ptychagnostus intermedius and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Ptychagnostus intermedius and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Ptychagnostus intermedius, 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

9 references

Each of the 22 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. 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

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No picture of Ptychagnostus intermedius 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 Ptychagnostus intermedius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ptychagnostus intermedius 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 itPtychagnostus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tullberg 1880)