Artiopoda - Agnostida - Agnostidae
Alternative combination: Agnostus seclusus
Synonym: Kormagnostus simplex Resser 1938
Full reference: C. D. Walcott. 1884. Paleontology of the Eureka district. United States Geological Survey Monograph 8(8):1-298
Belongs to Kormagnostus according to A. R. Palmer 1954
See also Walcott 1884 and Westrop et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Kormagnostus boltoni, Kormagnostus clavatus, Kormagnostus copelandi, Kormagnostus cuchillensis, Kormagnostus inventus, Kormagnostus minutus
Type specimens:
- Kormagnostus seclusus: USNM 24586, a cephalon/head
- Kormagnostus simplex:
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Argentina (2 collections), Canada (7: Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Yukon), Greenland (12), Kazakhstan (5), United States (53: South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 79 collections each including a single occurrence
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