Artiopoda - Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Belongs to Pseudagnostus according to Opik 1967
Sister taxa: Pseudagnostus (Pseudagnostus), Pseudagnostus ampullatus, Pseudagnostus anhuiensis, Pseudagnostus benxiensis, Pseudagnostus bulgosus, Pseudagnostus canadensis, Pseudagnostus chinensis, Pseudagnostus communis, Pseudagnostus cyclopyge, Pseudagnostus dividuus, Pseudagnostus gyps, Pseudagnostus josephus, Pseudagnostus karatauensis, Pseudagnostus koerferi, Pseudagnostus leptoplastorum, Pseudagnostus marginisulcatus, Pseudagnostus medius, Pseudagnostus mestus, Pseudagnostus obsurdus, Pseudagnostus papilio, Pseudagnostus planulatus, Pseudagnostus praecurrens, Pseudagnostus primus, Pseudagnostus prolongus, Pseudagnostus pseudangustilobus, Pseudagnostus pseudocyclopyge, Pseudagnostus punctatus, Pseudagnostus rajovopsis, Pseudagnostus securiger, Pseudagnostus sericatus, Pseudagnostus subquadratus, Pseudagnostus vastulus, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) hunanensis, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) rugosus, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) dubius, Rhaptagnostus anhuiensis, Rhaptagnostus changshanensis, Rhaptagnostus pseudoconvergens, Rhaptagnostus bifax, Rhaptagnostus ciliensis, Rhaptagnostus elix, Rhaptagnostus cyclopygeformis, Rhaptagnostus convexiformis, Rhaptagnostus gunnari, Rhaptagnostus plenus, Rhaptagnostus auctor, Rhaptagnostus obsoletus, Rhaptagnostus apsis, Rhaptagnostus langyashanensis, Rhaptagnostus simplex, Rhaptagnostus heteromorphus, Pseudagnostina douvillei, Litagnostus meniscus, Litagnostus levisensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is "bottom fauna", Denison Range, which is in a Maentwrogian submarine fan wackestone/siltstone in the Singing Creek Formation of Australia
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Argentina (2 collections), Australia (4), Canada (2: Newfoundland and Labrador), China (7), Kazakhstan (13), the Russian Federation (4)
Total: 32 collections including 33 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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