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Aspidagnostus

Agnostida - Clavagnostidae

Taxonomy
Aspidagnostus was named by Whitehouse (1936) [Sepkoski's age data: ]. It is not extant. Its type is Aspidagnostus parmatus. It is the type genus of Aspidagnostinae.

It was assigned to Clavagnostidae by Whittington et al. (1997); to Agnostida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Aspidagnostinae by Jago et al. (2004).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1936Aspidagnostus Whitehouse
1960Biragnostus Pokrovskaya
1997Aspidagnostus Whittington et al. p. 372
2002Aspidagnostus Sepkoski
2004Aspidagnostus Jago et al. p. 29

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
subphylumArtiopoda(Hou and Bergstrom)
orderAgnostidaSalter 1864
suborderAgnostinaSalter 1864
superfamilyCondylopygoideaRaymond 1913
familyClavagnostidaeHowell 1937
subfamilyAspidagnostinaePokrovskaya 1960
genusAspidagnostusWhitehouse 1936

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Aspidagnostus Whitehouse 1936
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Aspidagnostus laevis Palmer 1962
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Invalid names: Aspidagnostus pentagonus Lu and Lin 1989 [synonym], Aspidagnostus taoyuanensis Peng 1987 [synonym]
Aspidagnostus lunulosus Kryskov 1963
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Invalid names: Aspidagnostus chekiangensis Lu 1974 [synonym], Aspidagnostus stictus Opik 1967 [synonym]
Aspidagnostus orientalis Yang et al. 1993
Aspidagnostus parmatus Whitehouse 1936
Aspidagnostus primitivus Yang et al. 1993
Aspidagnostus rugosus Palmer 1962
Invalid names: Biragnostus Pokrovskaya 1960 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available