Katastrophomena agrestis
No picture of Katastrophomena agrestis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Katastrophomena agrestis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KatastrophomenaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.2 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Katastrophomena agrestis 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Katastrophomena agrestis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Katastrophomena agrestis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Katastrophomena agrestis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Neoplatystrophia deani7 sites
- Onniella jonesi7 sites
- Zygospira hicksi7 sites
- Dolerorthis intercostata6 sites
- Glyptorthis splendens6 sites
- Boreadorthis sheehani5 sites
- Cryptothyris magnifica5 sites
- Sampo transversa5 sites
- Eostropheodonta portfieldensis4 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) semiovalis4 sites
- Nicolella crabbi4 sites
- Sowerbyella sladensis4 sites
- Sulevorthis humilidorsatus4 sites
- Triplesia hintsae4 sites
- Foliomena folium3 sites
- Giraldiella3 sites
- Kozlowskites nuntius3 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) sholeshookensis3 sites
- Skenidioides3 sites
- Christiania nilssoni2 sites
- Ogmoplecia plicata2 sites
- Paracraniops2 sites
- Acanthocrania elusa1 site
- Ateleocystites lansae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Katastrophomena agrestis, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Katastrophomena agrestis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Katastrophomena agrestis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Katastrophomena agrestis 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 itKatastrophomena through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bancroft 1949)