Artiopoda - Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Synonym: Miagnostus Jaekel 1909 [objective synonym]
Parent taxon: Ptychagnostidae according to H. B. Whittington et al. 1997
See also Bruton et al. 1984, Hong et al. 2003, Jell and Adrain 2002 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acidusus, Allobodochus, Aotagnostus, Goniagnostus, Myrmecomimus, Onymagnostus, Pseudophalacroma, Ptychagnostus, Tomagnostus, Triplagnostus, Yakutiana
Subtaxa: Lejopyge acantha Lejopyge armata Lejopyge barrandei Lejopyge cos Lejopyge elegans Lejopyge laevigatus Lejopyge multifora Lejopyge rigbyi Lejopyge sinensis
Type: Battus laevigatus
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (3: British Columbia, New Brunswick), China (67), Greenland (9), India (3), Kazakhstan (21), North Korea (1), Norway (4), the Russian Federation (4), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (9: Alaska, New York, Utah)
Total: 126 collections including 154 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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