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Homagnostus comptus

Agnostida - Agnostidae

Taxonomy
Homagnostus comptus was named by Palmer (1962). Its type specimen is USNM 143126, a cephalon/head, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Steptoean Stage, Duck Creek, Nevada - Palmer 1999, which is in the Steptoean/Dolgellian of shale/limestone the Dunderberg Formation Nevada.

It was recombined as Agnostus comptus by Rozova (1964).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
H. pater, H. pisiformis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1962Homagnostus comptus Palmer pp. F-12 figs. Pl. 1, fig. 12
1964Agnostus comptus Rozova

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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
familyAgnostidaeM'Coy 1849
genusHomagnostusHowell 1935
speciescomptus

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.

†Homagnostus comptus Palmer 1962
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available