Agnostotes
| Agnostotes Temporal range: 501-499 mya Miaolingian(middle Cambrian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| 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.
- 1 2 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".