Triplagnostus

No picture of Triplagnostus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Triplagnostus itself, so it was not used. 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 Triplagnostus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychagnostidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ptychagnostidae

Time the record covers

At least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 505.3 Mya to 503 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 509.7 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 48 of 48 occurrencesCambrian510–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 3 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 3 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 3 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 4 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 4 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 4 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 4 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 2 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 2 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 2 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 2 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 2 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 1 occurrence500–500 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences505.3 Mya503 Mya510.2 Mya496.5 Mya

48 occurrences of Triplagnostus 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

48 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

19 formations

Wheeler — 39.52°N, 113.00°WInca — 20.25°S, 138.82°EInca — 20.21°S, 138.86°EInca — 19.98°S, 138.92°EHuaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EHuaqiao — 28.72°N, 109.97°EYangliugang — 28.82°N, 118.60°EYangliugang — 31.37°N, 120.95°EYangliugang — 32.27°N, 118.25°EKuonamka — 68.50°N, 112.43°EKuonamka — 69.66°N, 124.18°EWheeler Shale — 39.54°N, 112.92°WWheeler Shale — 39.29°N, 113.31°WAktas — 43.53°N, 69.95°EBlacksmith — 41.30°N, 111.72°WBlacksmith — 41.43°N, 111.94°WCurrant Bush — 19.64°S, 138.93°ECurrant Bush — 19.55°S, 138.91°ESwasey/Wheeler Shale — 39.22°N, 113.45°WShallow Bay — 49.25°N, 65.57°WGory Pieprzowe Shale — 50.72°N, 21.62°EJince — 49.78°N, 13.98°EForsemölla Limestone — 59.77°N, 10.48°EArthur Creek — 21.83°S, 136.50°EV-Creek Limestone — 19.79°S, 138.65°EBeetle Creek — 20.73°S, 138.32°EFjällbränna — 64.43°N, 15.54°EHenson Gletscher — 82.17°N, 40.40°W

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

Triplagnostus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Triplagnostus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

188 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Triplagnostus, 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

20 references

Each of the 48 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. 8 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 content0

No picture of Triplagnostus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Triplagnostus itself, so it was not used.

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 Triplagnostus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Triplagnostus 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 itPtychagnostidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Howell 1935)