Plagiogmus
No picture of Plagiogmus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Plagiogmus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IchnofossilsPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 516 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 512.1 Mya.
4 occurrences of Plagiogmus 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian75%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Plagiogmus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plagiogmus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Plagiogmus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Planolites3 sites
- Treptichnus pedum3 sites
- Cruziana2 sites
- Diplichnites2 sites
- Palaeophycus2 sites
- Phycodes2 sites
- ? Olenichnus sp.1 site
- <A>1 site
- <B>1 site
- <C>1 site
- <D>1 site
- <E>1 site
- <F>1 site
- <G>1 site
- <H>1 site
- <I>1 site
- <J>1 site
- <K>1 site
- <L>1 site
- <M>1 site
- Archaeonassa1 site
- Aspidella1 site
- Astropolithon1 site
- Aulichnites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Plagiogmus, 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
4 references- When life got smart: The evolution of behavioral complexity through the Ediacaran and early Cambrian of NW Canada1
- A diverse ichnofauna from the Cambrian Stage 4 Wulongqing Formation near Kunming (Yunnan Province, South China)1
- Ediacaran and Cambrian index fossils from Sonora, Mexico1
- Fauna and biogenic structures in Krol-Tal succession (Vendian-Early Cambrian), Lesser Himalaya: their biostratigraphic and palaeoecological significance1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Plagiogmus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Plagiogmus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Plagiogmus 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 itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roedel 1929