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Genus of trilobite

Agnostotes
Temporal range: PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ 501-499 mya Miaolingian(middle Cambrian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: †Trilobita (?)
Order: †Agnostida
Family: †Diplagnostidae
Genus: †Agnostotes
Öpik, 1963

Agnostotes is a genus of artiopodan arthropod in the family Diplagnostidae of the order Agnostida. It was a widely distributed genus.

Use in stratigraphy

The base of the Jiangshanian stage is the FAD of A. orientalis.

References

  1. "Agnostotes". www.Mindat.org.
  2. "AGNOSTIDA FACT SHEET". trilobites.info.
  3. "Agnostotes". Paleobiology Database.
  4. ^ 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".
Taxon identifiers
Agnostotes
Agnostotes orientalis
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