Valenagnostus imitans

No picture of Valenagnostus imitans 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 Valenagnostus imitans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 500.5 Mya to 499.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 497 Mya.

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21 occurrences of Valenagnostus imitans 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

21 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

4 formations

Huaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EHuaqiao — 28.72°N, 109.97°EZhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EV-Creek Limestone — 20.19°S, 138.45°EV-Creek Limestone — 20.31°S, 138.63°EKarsha — 33.15°N, 77.18°E

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The named rock units Valenagnostus imitans 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.

Valenagnostus imitans and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Valenagnostus imitans and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Valenagnostus imitans, 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

5 references

Each of the 21 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

Media content0

No picture of Valenagnostus imitans 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 Valenagnostus imitans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Valenagnostus imitans 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.

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What may have been alongside itValenagnostus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oepik 1961)