Artiopoda - Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Synonyms: Monaxagnostus Liu 1982, Monexagnostus Liu 1982
Parent taxon: Hypagnostidae according to J. R. Paterson and J. R. Laurie 2004
See also Jell and Adrain 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Whittington et al. 1997
Sister taxa: Cotalagnostus, Doryagnostus, Eoagnostus, Pseudoperonopsis, Raragnostus, Spinagnostinae, Tomagnostella
Subtaxa: Peratagnostus controversus Peratagnostus distinctus Peratagnostus hillardensis Peratagnostus invalidus Peratagnostus nobilis Peratagnostus obsoletus Peratagnostus orientalis Peratagnostus zhejiangensis
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Australia (3 collections), Canada (4: Yukon), China (46), Kazakhstan (42), the Russian Federation (3), South Korea (1)
• Taoyuanian of China (11), the Russian Federation (4), South Korea (17)
Total: 131 collections including 145 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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