Agerina elongata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AgerinaPBDB
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 most 9.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 7 of 7 occurrencesOrdovician477–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477.6 Mya467.5 Mya

7 occurrences of Agerina elongata 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

7 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

1 formation

Dawan — 30.90°N, 111.39°EDawan — 30.86°N, 110.37°E

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

Agerina elongata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Agerina elongata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Agerina elongata, 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

3 references

Each of the 7 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 Agerina elongata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Agerina elongata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAgerina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lu 1975