Hypagnostus brevifrons
No picture of Hypagnostus brevifrons 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 Hypagnostus brevifrons, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HypagnostusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hypagnostus
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Hypagnostus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Hypagnostus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Spinagnostidae
Time the record covers
At least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 500.5 Mya to 499.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 497 Mya.
78 occurrences of Hypagnostus brevifrons 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
78 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
9 formations
- Huaqiao Formation53
- Zhumabai Formation13
- Baguamiao Formation4
- Fjällbränna Formation3
- Karsha Formation1
- Yangliugang Formation1
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The named rock units Hypagnostus brevifrons has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hypagnostus brevifrons and its relatives
CambrianWhere Hypagnostus brevifrons and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
162 taxa- Acidusus aculeatus8 sites
- Lejopyge armata7 sites
- Linnarssonia7 sites
- Tomagnostella exsculpta7 sites
- Hypagnostus parvifrons6 sites
- Tomagnostella sulcifera6 sites
- Clavagnostus repandus5 sites
- Lejopyge laevigatus5 sites
- Linnarssonia ophirensis5 sites
- Lisogoragnostus mictus5 sites
- Goniagnostus nathorsti4 sites
- Parablackwelderia jimaensis4 sites
- Baojingia quadrata3 sites
- Goniagnostus spiniger3 sites
- Lisania3 sites
- Pseudophalacroma ovale3 sites
- Acadagnostus minor2 sites
- Agnostus artilimbatus2 sites
- Ammagnostus laiwuensis2 sites
- Anabolotreta diversa2 sites
- Clavagnostus calensis2 sites
- Diplagnostus2 sites
- Glaberagnostus bituberculatus2 sites
- Hadragnostus quadratiformis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Hypagnostus brevifrons, 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
11 references- Agnostid biostratigraphy across the Middle-Upper Cambrian boundary in Hunan, China29
- The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Guzhangian Stage (Cambrian) in the Wuling Mountains, northwestern Hunan, China21
- Ergaliev and Ergaliev, 200813
- Yang et al., 19934
- Middle Cambrian agnostoids and trilobites from the Lower Allochthon, Swedish Caledonides3
- Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and trilobite fauna of Taoyuan, NW Hunan3
- Miaolingian (Cambrian) agnostids and trilobites from the Cobb Valley area, South Island, New Zealand1
- The diverse radiodont fauna from the Marjum Formation of Utah, USA (Cambrian: Drumian)1
- A Cambrian Series 3 (Guzhangian) fauna with Centropleura from Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica1
- Cambrian Trilobites from the Parahio and Zanskar Valleys, Indian Himalaya1
- The Cambrian trilobites of western Zhejiang1
Each of the 78 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 Hypagnostus brevifrons 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 Hypagnostus brevifrons, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hypagnostus brevifrons 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 itHypagnostus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Angelin 1851)