Artiopoda - Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
Synonyms: Agnostoglossa Öpik 1967, Tentagnostus Sun 1989
Parent taxon: Ammagnostinae according to C. J. Bentley et al. 2006
See also Jago et al. 2004, Jell and Adrain 2002, Öpik 1967, Peng and Robison 2000, Sepkoski 2002 and Whittington et al. 1997
Sister taxa: Hadragnostus, Proagnostus
Subtaxa: Ammagnostus adchinensis Ammagnostus antarcticus Ammagnostus cryptus Ammagnostus duibianensis Ammagnostus euryaxis Ammagnostus histus Ammagnostus hunanensis Ammagnostus incertus Ammagnostus integriceps Ammagnostus jegorovae Ammagnostus laiwuensis Ammagnostus parvilobus Ammagnostus psammius Ammagnostus serus Ammagnostus simplexiformis Ammagnostus sinensis Ammagnostus spinosus Ammagnostus timus Ammagnostus wangcunensis
Type: Ammagnostus psammius
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Taoyuanian of China (1 collection), South Korea (5)
• Cambrian of Antarctica (4), Australia (5), China (56), France (1), Greenland (2), Kazakhstan (25), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (4), United States (4: Utah)
Total: 108 collections including 144 occurrences
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