Tomagnostella exsculpta

Tomagnostella exsculpta

Angelin Nils Petter · 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
TomagnostellaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Spinagnostidae

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 500.5 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 58 of 58 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 58 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 1 occurrence504–504 Mya — about 3 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 3 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 5 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 5 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 5 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 4 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 4 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 7 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 7 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 7 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 4 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences500.5 Mya497 Mya507 Mya486.4 Mya

58 occurrences of Tomagnostella exsculpta 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

58 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

11 formations

Huaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EHuaqiao — 28.72°N, 109.97°EZhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EHolm Dal — 82.42°N, 39.75°WAktas — 43.53°N, 69.95°EEmpozada — 32.88°S, 68.82°WRabbitkettle — 62.70°N, 128.38°WKarsha — 33.15°N, 77.18°EMarjum and Weeks — 39.22°N, 113.45°WBaguamiao — 32.22°N, 108.42°EMarjum — 39.27°N, 113.31°WFjällbränna — 64.23°N, 15.59°E

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

Tomagnostella exsculpta and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Tomagnostella exsculpta and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

248 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Tomagnostella exsculpta, 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

Each of the 58 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 Tomagnostella exsculpta

Source
GBIF
Credit
Angelin Nils Petter
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itTomagnostella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Angelin 1851)