Gymnagnostus mexicanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GymnagnostusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Agnostidae
Time the record covers
At least 450 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 490.2 Mya to 477.1 Mya.
4 occurrences of Gymnagnostus mexicanus 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian25%
- Ordovician75%
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
3 formations
- Tinu Formation2
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group1
- Rabbitkettle Formation1
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The named rock units Gymnagnostus mexicanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gymnagnostus mexicanus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Gymnagnostus mexicanus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Leptoplastides marianus3 sites
- Parabolinella argentinensis2 sites
- Plicatolinella ocula2 sites
- Angelina hyeronimi1 site
- Bienvillia tetragonalis1 site
- Corrugatagnostus1 site
- Diplapatokephalus finalis1 site
- Kainella eleutherolfi1 site
- Leiobienvillia terranovica1 site
- Leiostegium manitouensis1 site
- Lunacrania nasuta1 site
- Lunacrania trisecta1 site
- Micragnostus pehuenchensis1 site
- Parabolinella triarthroides1 site
- Parakoldinioidia stitti1 site
- Perischodory incompertum1 site
- Saukia globosa1 site
- Symphysurina spicata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gymnagnostus mexicanus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Tremadocian trilobites from the Nochixtlan Region, Oaxaca, Mexico2
- An Ibexian (Early Ordovician) trilobite faunule from the type section of the Rabbitkettle Formation (southern Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories)1
- Cambrian-Ordovician boundary sections in the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland1
Each of the 4 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 Gymnagnostus mexicanus 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 Gymnagnostus mexicanus, 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 itGymnagnostus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Robison and Pantoja-Alor 1968