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Doryagnostus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Agnostida
    Superfamily:  
Agnostoidea
    Family:  
Spinagnostidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Doryagnostus KOBAYASHI, 1939a, p. 148
    Type Species:  
Agnostus incertus Brögger, 1878, p. 70, OD, lectotype (Nikolaisen & HENNINGSMOEN, 1990, fig. 2a), 28200, PMO, Oslo


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Fossil Image
Fig. 228,1a,b. *D. incertus (BRÖGGER ), Middle Cambrian (Ptychagnostus punctuosus Zone), southern Norway (Krekling Station, Oslo district); a, paralectotype, cephalon, PMO H2646, × 8; b, lectotype, pygidium, PMO 28200, × 8 (Nikolaisen & Henningsmoen, 1990, fig. 2a, 26).


Synonyms

Ceratagnostus


Geographic Distribution

northern Greenland; England; Norway, Denmark, P. tessini Zone; Sweden, P. punctuosus Zone; Canada (Newfoundland), P. davidis Zone; Australia (Queensland), E. opimus to G. nathorsti Zones; Russia (southeastern Siberia), late P. davidis to P. forchhammeri Zones; China (Xinjiang), G. nathorsti or P. punctuosus Zone, (Hunan, Guizhou), zone uncertain.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
upper Middle Cambrian
    Beginning International Stage:  
Drumian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
504.5
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
upper Middle Cambrian
    Ending International Stage:  
Guzhangian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
498.75


Description

Median preglabellar furrow well developed, usually expanding into deltoid area anteriorly, Glabella with ogival anterior lobe, Pygidium bispinose, axis ogival, acuminate posteriorly, posterior lobe ogival, commonly with transverse depression




References



Museum or Author Information

PMO, Nikolaisen & Henningsmoen, 1990