Pentagnostus brighamensis

Pentagnostus brighamensis (Resser, 1939), a relative of Pentagnostus brighamensis — not Pentagnostus brighamensis itself

Not Pentagnostus brighamensis. This is Pentagnostus brighamensis (Resser, 1939), a relative — both are Agnostidae.

Gunther Family · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PentagnostusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agnostoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Agnostoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Agnostoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Peronopsidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agnostoidea

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 508 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 515.3 Mya to 504.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCambrian515–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509.7 Mya508 Mya515.8 Mya504 Mya

5 occurrences of Pentagnostus brighamensis 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

5 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

2 formations

Lead Bell Shale — 42.00°N, 112.00°WEmigrant — 37.72°N, 117.44°WEmigrant — 37.79°N, 117.44°W

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The named rock units Pentagnostus brighamensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pentagnostus brighamensis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Pentagnostus brighamensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pentagnostus brighamensis, 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 5 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 content1

Picture of Pentagnostus brighamensis (Resser, 1939)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Gunther Family
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pentagnostus brighamensis 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 itPentagnostus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Resser 1939)