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, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) hunanensis, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) dubius, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) rugosus, Litagnostus meniscus, Litagnostus levisensis, Rhaptagnostus changshanensis, Rhaptagnostus simplex, Rhaptagnostus heteromorphus, Rhaptagnostus gunnari, Rhaptagnostus bifax, Rhaptagnostus obsoletus, Rhaptagnostus cyclopygeformis, Rhaptagnostus ciliensis, Rhaptagnostus anhuiensis, Rhaptagnostus elix, Rhaptagnostus langyashanensis, Rhaptagnostus convexiformis, Rhaptagnostus pseudoconvergens, Rhaptagnostus plenus, Rhaptagnostus apsis, Pseudagnostina douvillei
Type specimen: CPC 15070, a cephalon/head. Its type locality is Lily Creek Section B791a, which is in an Iverian open shallow subtidal packstone/wackestone in the Chatsworth Formation of Australia.
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Lily Creek Section B791a
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