Agerina

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeiostegiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Leiostegiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 436 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 73 occurrencesOrdovician — about 56 of 73 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 73 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 73 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 73 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 73 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 73 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 73 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 73 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 73 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 73 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 73 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 73 occurrences496–480 Mya — about 5 occurrences480–465 Mya — about 48 occurrences465–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence200–184 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences184–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–44 Mya — about 15 occurrences44–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence477.1 Mya41.03 Mya496 Mya29 Mya

73 occurrences of Agerina 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

73 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

22 formations

Volkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°EDawan — 30.90°N, 111.39°EDawan — 30.86°N, 110.37°ECorçà — 42.01°N, 0.83°ECorçà — 42.02°N, 0.70°EZitai — 29.78°N, 111.13°ETrenice — 49.78°N, 13.68°ECeratopyge — 58.00°N, 14.00°ECeratopyge — 57.00°N, 17.00°EKaragach — 48.01°N, 80.93°ERoad River — 64.50°N, 130.00°WKuldana — 33.62°N, 71.92°ELignites de Soissonais — 43.62°N, 5.75°ESiliangssu — 33.07°N, 106.89°EJiuxi — 29.22°N, 111.21°ETourmakeady — 53.69°N, 9.37°WLynna — 59.97°N, 32.57°ELower Fezouata — 30.51°N, 6.07°WGrès d'Assignan — 43.33°N, 2.62°EEscanilla — 42.16°N, 0.04°ECorca — 42.02°N, 0.70°ECalcaire d'Agel — 43.33°N, 2.74°ELatorp — 59.24°N, 14.94°EUpper Fezouata — 30.49°N, 5.88°WMilina — 49.77°N, 13.80°E

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The named rock units Agerina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Agerina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Agerina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

518 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Agerina, 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

27 references

Each of the 73 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. 15 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 Agerina 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 Agerina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Agerina 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 itLeiostegiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tjernvik 1956