Ptychagnostus sinicus
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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 1.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 504.5 Mya to 503 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 497 Mya.
8 occurrences of Ptychagnostus sinicus 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
8 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
6 formations
- Currant Bush Formation3
- Yangliugang Formation1
- Hsuchuang Formation1
- Arthur Creek Formation1
- Wheeler Shale Formation1
- Henson Gletscher Formation1
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The named rock units Ptychagnostus sinicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ptychagnostus sinicus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Ptychagnostus sinicus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
127 taxa- Rhodotypiscus nasonis3 sites
- Triplagnostus gibbus3 sites
- Chancelloria2 sites
- Itagnostus interstrictus2 sites
- Onymagnostus semiermis2 sites
- Rhynchonelliformea2 sites
- Acadagnostus1 site
- Acadagnostus acadica1 site
- Acidusus occultatus1 site
- Acrothele subsidua1 site
- Acrothyra1 site
- Acrothyra minor1 site
- Aetholicopalla adnata1 site
- Allonnia1 site
- Altiocculus harrisi1 site
- Amplectobelua stephenensis1 site
- Annelida1 site
- Anomalocarididae1 site
- Archaeocothurnus bifida1 site
- Arthropoda1 site
- Asaphiscus wheeleri1 site
- Bathyuriscus fimbriatus1 site
- Bolaspidella housensis1 site
- Bolaspidella reesae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ptychagnostus sinicus, 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
6 references- Middle Cambrian agnostids: systematics and biostratigraphy.3
- Middle Cambrian (Wuliuan Stage) Small Shelly Fossils from North Greenland (Laurentia)1
- The diverse radiodont fauna from the Marjum Formation of Utah, USA (Cambrian: Drumian)1
- Biostratigraphy of the Arthur Creek Formation and Thorntonia Limestone, Georgina Basin1
- The Cambrian trilobites of western Zhejiang1
- Cambrian agnostids from the North China Platform1
Each of the 8 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 sinicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 sinicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ptychagnostus sinicus 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.
Keep going
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. (Lu 1957)