Agnostotes
Appearance
Agnostotes Temporal range: Miaolingian(middle Cambrian
501-499 mya | |
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Scientific 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.[2][3] It was a widely distributed genus.[4]
Use in stratigraphy
[edit]The base of the Jiangshanian stage is the FAD of A. orientalis.[5][4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Agnostotes". www.Mindat.org.
- ^ "AGNOSTIDA FACT SHEET". trilobites.info.
- ^ "Agnostotes". Paleobiology Database.
- ^ 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".
- ^ "GSSP for Jiangshanian Stage".