Artiopoda - Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Full reference: J. H. Shergold. 1980. Late Cambrian trilobites from the Chatsworth Limestone, western Queensland. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 186:1-108
Belongs to Rhaptagnostus according to J. H. Shergold 1980
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 idalis, 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, Rhaptagnostus convexiformis, Rhaptagnostus bifax, Rhaptagnostus gunnari, Rhaptagnostus pseudoconvergens, Rhaptagnostus simplex, Rhaptagnostus obsoletus, Rhaptagnostus changshanensis, Rhaptagnostus elix, Rhaptagnostus anhuiensis, Rhaptagnostus plenus, Rhaptagnostus heteromorphus, Rhaptagnostus cyclopygeformis, Rhaptagnostus auctor, Rhaptagnostus ciliensis, Rhaptagnostus langyashanensis, Pseudagnostina douvillei, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) rugosus, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) hunanensis, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) dubius, Litagnostus meniscus, Litagnostus levisensis
Type specimen: CPC 15029, a pygidium. Its type locality is Horse Creek D668, which is in an Iverian open shallow subtidal grainstone in the Chatsworth Formation of Australia.
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Australia (9 collections)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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