Tomagnostus

No picture of Tomagnostus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Tomagnostus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychagnostidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ptychagnostidae

Time the record covers

At least 9.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 506.5 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516.2 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 35 of 35 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 35 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 1 occurrence508–507 Mya — about 2 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 3 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 4 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 5 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 4 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 3 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 3 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 3 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 2 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 2 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506.5 Mya497 Mya516.8 Mya486.3 Mya

35 occurrences of Tomagnostus 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

35 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

13 formations

Shallow Bay — 49.83°N, 57.87°WShallow Bay — 49.02°N, 55.52°WShallow Bay — 49.25°N, 65.57°WAlum Shale — 58.76°N, 15.52°EAktas — 43.53°N, 69.95°EAbbey Shale — 52.55°N, 1.53°WHenson Gletscher — 80.25°N, 62.50°WAsbill Pond — 34.00°N, 82.00°WManuel River — 45.42°N, 65.66°WManuel River — 45.33°N, 65.53°WMeagher — 45.76°N, 111.73°WForest Hills — 45.27°N, 66.07°WLower Alum Shale — 55.00°N, 15.00°EJince — 49.78°N, 13.98°EMenevia — 51.88°N, 5.21°WKap Stanton — 80.25°N, 62.50°W

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The named rock units Tomagnostus 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.

Tomagnostus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Tomagnostus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Tomagnostus, 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

13 references

Each of the 35 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Tomagnostus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Tomagnostus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tomagnostus 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 itPtychagnostidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Howell 1935