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Corrugatagnostus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Agnostida
    Superfamily:  
Agnostoidea
    Family:  
Metagnostidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Corrugatagnostus KOBAYASHI, 1939a, p. 173
    Type Species:  
Agnostus perrugatus Barrande, 1872, p. 143, OD, = A. morea Salter, 1864b, p. 7, holotype by monotypy (SALTER, 1864b, pl. 1, fig. 13), 8699, BGS, London


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Fossil Image
Fig. 236,5a–c. *C. morea (SALTER), Lower Ordovician (Llanvirn); a, England (Shelve Inlier, Shropshire), holotype, cephalon, BGS 8699, ×5 (new); b,c, England (Old Church Stoke, Shropshire), b, cephalon, BGS 92922, ×5; c, pygidium, BGS 92923a, ×5 (new).


Synonyms

Segmentagnostus, Granulatagnostus


Geographic Distribution

Czechoslovakia, Llandeilo–lower Caradoc; England, Arenig–lower Llanvirn; Scotland, upper Caradoc–Ashgill; Ireland, Ashgill; Belgium, Llandeilo; France, ?lower Arenig; ?Argentina, lower Tremadoc; Russia (Altay Mountains), ?Upper Cambrian; Kazakhstan, middle–upper Caradoc; Uzbekistan, Ashgill; China (Zhejiang, Jiangsu), ?Tremadoc, upper Caradoc–Ashgill; USA (Texas), Lower Ordovician; Poland, Ashgill.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Cambrian
    Beginning International Stage:  
Guzhangian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
498.75
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Ordovician
    Ending International Stage:  
Hirnantian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
443.07


Description

Glabella with semiovate to semicircular anterior lobe, F3 chevron shaped, posterior lobe with F2 variably developed, chevron shaped, glabellar node from immediately behind F3 to well onto anterior glabellar lobe. Pygidial axis very short, tapering rearward or with slight constriction across M2, posterior lobe transverse, subrectangular to trapeziform, usually with weak terminal node.




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