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Eolotagnostus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Agnostida
    Superfamily:  
Agnostoidea
    Family:  
Agnostidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Lotagnostus (Eolotagnostus) Zhou in Zhiqiang Zhou, Li, & QU, 1982, p. 217
    Type Species:  
* E. gansuensis, OD, holotype (Zhiqiang Zhou, Li, & QU, 1982, pl. 57, fig. 10), \\operatorname{Tr} 008, XIGMR, Beijing


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Fig. 218,2a,b. *L. (E.) gansuensis (ZноU), Upper Cambrian (Fengshanian), China (Gansu), a, paratype, cephalon, XIGMR \\operatorname{Tr} 007, \\times 5, b, holotype, pygidium, XIGMR \\operatorname{Tr} 008, \\times 5 (Zhiqiang Zhou, Li, & Qu, 1982, pl. 57, Fig. 9-10).


Synonyms

L. (Eolotagnostus)


Geographic Distribution

China (Gansu, Xinjiang, Zhejiang), L. punctatus–Hedinaspis Zone; Kazakhstan, E. scrobicularis Zone; Australia (Tasmania), Iverian.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
uppermost Cambrian
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 10
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
491
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
uppermost Cambrian, Hedinaspis Zone, E. scrobicularis Zone, Iverian
    Ending International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 10
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
486.85


Description

Cephalon weakly scrobiculate and pygidium nonscrobiculate, median preglabellar furrow absent or weakly developed. Glabella with long (sag.), semiovate to ogival anterior lobe, posterior lobe with F2 furrows angled slightly forward. Pygidial axis variably constricted across M2, with F1 impressed laterally and medially effaced.




References

Zhou, Zhiqiang, Jinseng Li, \& Xinguo Qu. 1982. Trilobita. In Paleontological Atlas of northwest China, Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Volume. Part 1: Precambrian and Early Paleozoic. Geological Publishing House. Beijing. p. 215-294, pl. 57-72.


Museum or Author Information

Zhiqiang Zhou, Li, & Qu, 1982