Geragnostus (Microagnostus)

No picture of Geragnostus (Microagnostus) 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 Geragnostus (Microagnostus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 6.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 483.4 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 491 Mya to 468 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 17 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 16 of 17 occurrencesOrdovician492–491 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 1 occurrence486–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–484 Mya — about 1 occurrence484–484 Mya — about 1 occurrence484–483 Mya — about 1 occurrence483–482 Mya — about 1 occurrence482–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–480 Mya — about 1 occurrence480–480 Mya — about 1 occurrence480–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–477 Mya — about 1 occurrence477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483.4 Mya477.1 Mya491.5 Mya467.5 Mya

17 occurrences of Geragnostus (Microagnostus) 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

17 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

6 formations

Volcancito — 28.87°S, 67.69°WDevendeus or Saladillo — 23.37°S, 65.38°WDevendeus or Saladillo — 24.54°S, 65.74°WGuapayito — 3.57°N, 73.77°WAzul Pampa — 22.95°S, 65.42°WTaique — 23.84°S, 66.00°WZitai — 29.78°N, 111.13°E

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The named rock units Geragnostus (Microagnostus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Geragnostus (Microagnostus) and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Geragnostus (Microagnostus) and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

63 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Geragnostus (Microagnostus), 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 17 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 Geragnostus (Microagnostus) 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 Geragnostus (Microagnostus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Geragnostus (Microagnostus) 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 itGeragnostus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

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