Agnostotes

Agnostotes
Temporal range: 501-499 mya Miaolingian(middle Cambrian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: †Artiopoda
Class: †Trilobita (?)
Order: †Agnostida
Family: †Diplagnostidae
Genus: †
Öpik, 1963

Agnostotes is a genus of artiopodan arthropod in the family Diplagnostidae of the order Agnostida.[2][3] It was a widely distributed genus.[4]

Use in stratigraphy

The base of the Jiangshanian stage is the FAD of A. orientalis.[5][4]

References

  1. ^ "Agnostotes". www.Mindat.org.
  2. ^ "AGNOSTIDA FACT SHEET". trilobites.info.
  3. ^ "Agnostotes". Paleobiology Database.
  4. ^ a b Peng, Schanchi; Babcock, Loren E. "Two Cambrian agnostoid trilobites, Agnostotes orientalis (Kobayashi, 1935) and Lotagnostus americanus (Billings, 1860): Key species for defining global stages of the Cambrian System".
  5. ^ "GSSP for Jiangshanian Stage".
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