Artiopoda - Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Alternative combinations: Agnostus josepha, Pseudagnostus josepha
Synonym: Pseudagnostus vigilax Lu and Lin 1989
Belongs to Pseudagnostus according to R. E. Grant 1962
See also Lu and Lin 1989 and Peng and Robison 2000
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 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, Pseudagnostina douvillei, Litagnostus meniscus, Litagnostus levisensis, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) hunanensis, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) rugosus, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) dubius, Rhaptagnostus auctor, Rhaptagnostus convexiformis, Rhaptagnostus elix, Rhaptagnostus apsis, Rhaptagnostus plenus, Rhaptagnostus cyclopygeformis, Rhaptagnostus ciliensis, Rhaptagnostus changshanensis, Rhaptagnostus heteromorphus, Rhaptagnostus simplex, Rhaptagnostus pseudoconvergens, Rhaptagnostus gunnari, Rhaptagnostus anhuiensis, Rhaptagnostus langyashanensis, Rhaptagnostus obsoletus, Rhaptagnostus bifax
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Taoyuanian of China (10 collections), the Russian Federation (1), South Korea (44)
• Cambrian of Canada (9: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon), China (31), the Russian Federation (1), South Korea (1), United States (27: Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Utah)
Total: 124 collections including 125 occurrences
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