Cotalagnostus lens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CotalagnostusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Spinagnostidae
Time the record covers
At most 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 506.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Cotalagnostus lens 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
9 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
4 formations
- Zhumabai Formation3
- Upper Comley Sandstone Formation2
- Menevia Formation · Porth-y-rhaw Group2
- Alum Shale Formation2
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The named rock units Cotalagnostus lens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cotalagnostus lens and its relatives
CambrianWhere Cotalagnostus lens and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Meneviella venulosa4 sites
- Eodiscus punctatus3 sites
- Paradoxides3 sites
- Ptychagnostus3 sites
- Solenopleura applanata3 sites
- Anopolenus2 sites
- Corynexochus bornholmiensis2 sites
- Cotalagnostus rotundus2 sites
- Diplorrhina depressa2 sites
- Hypagnostus2 sites
- Onymagnostus ciceroides2 sites
- Peronopsis fallax2 sites
- Ptychagnostus punctuosus2 sites
- ? Euagnostus aff. glandifer1 site
- ? Parasolenapleura peregrina1 site
- Acadagnostus1 site
- Acadagnostus acadica1 site
- Acadagnostus aff. bulkurensis1 site
- Acadagnostus ferox1 site
- Acadagnostus scutalis1 site
- Acidusus1 site
- Acontheus1 site
- Acrotreta sagittalis1 site
- Agaso1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cotalagnostus lens, 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
4 references- Ergaliev and Ergaliev, 20083
- A highly diverse trilobite fauna with Avalonian affinities from the Middle Cambrian Acidusus atavus Zone (Drumian Stage) of Bornholm, Denmark2
- Protocystites menevensis--a stem-group chordate (Cornuta) from the Middle Cambrian of South Wales2
- The Cambrian area of Rushton (Shropshire).2
Each of the 9 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 Cotalagnostus lens 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 Cotalagnostus lens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cotalagnostus lens 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 itCotalagnostus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Grönwall 1902)