Oidalagnostus trispinifer
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OidalagnostusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Diplagnostidae
Time the record covers
At most 7.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Oidalagnostus trispinifer 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
21 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
5 formations
- Huaqiao Formation11
- Holm Dal Formation · Tavsens Iskappe Group5
- Zhumabai Formation2
- Huayansi Formation1
- Labaz Formation1
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The named rock units Oidalagnostus trispinifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oidalagnostus trispinifer and its relatives
CambrianWhere Oidalagnostus trispinifer and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Catillicephala rotunda5 sites
- Conopolus granulus5 sites
- Kormagnostus seclusus5 sites
- Marjumia5 sites
- Modocia5 sites
- Onchonotopsis5 sites
- Bynumia4 sites
- Cedaria4 sites
- Cryptoderaspis metisensis4 sites
- Durinia4 sites
- Elrathia4 sites
- Hemirhodon4 sites
- Olenoides4 sites
- Pearylandia4 sites
- Proagnostus bulbus4 sites
- Balderia3 sites
- Bolaspidella stymacantha3 sites
- Dorispira holmdalense3 sites
- Holmdalia tubercula3 sites
- Lingulella3 sites
- Tomagnostella exsculpta3 sites
- Welleraspis newfoundlandensis3 sites
- Agelagma quadratum2 sites
- Agnostus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Oidalagnostus trispinifer, 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
7 references- Agnostid biostratigraphy across the Middle-Upper Cambrian boundary in Hunan, China9
- Molluscs of the Holm Dal Formation (late Middle Cambrian), central North Greenland5
- Ergaliev and Ergaliev, 20082
- Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and trilobite fauna of Taoyuan, NW Hunan2
- The Cambrian trilobites of western Zhejiang1
- Middle and Late Cambrian trilobites of the Altay1
- Rozova, 19641
Each of the 21 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 Oidalagnostus trispinifer 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 Oidalagnostus trispinifer, 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 itOidalagnostus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Westergard 1946