Artiopoda - Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Full reference: R. A. Fortey and R. M. Owens. 1991. A trilobite fauna from the highest Shineton Shales in Shropshire, and the correlation of the latest Tremadoc. Geological Magazine 128:437-464
Belongs to Litagnostus according to R. A. Fortey and R. M. Owens 1991
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, Litagnostus levisensis, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) dubius, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) hunanensis, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) rugosus, Pseudagnostina douvillei, Rhaptagnostus changshanensis, Rhaptagnostus convexiformis, Rhaptagnostus anhuiensis, Rhaptagnostus gunnari, Rhaptagnostus elix, Rhaptagnostus pseudoconvergens, Rhaptagnostus plenus, Rhaptagnostus bifax, Rhaptagnostus cyclopygeformis, Rhaptagnostus langyashanensis, Rhaptagnostus ciliensis, Rhaptagnostus auctor, Rhaptagnostus obsoletus, Rhaptagnostus apsis, Rhaptagnostus simplex, Rhaptagnostus heteromorphus
Type specimen: NMW 86.27G.1, an exoskeleton
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Coundmoor Brook (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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