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Hadragnostus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Agnostida
    Superfamily:  
Agnostoidea
    Family:  
Agnostidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Hadragnostus ÖPIK, 1967, p. 102
    Type Species:  
* H. las, OD, holotype (ÖРІК, 1967, pl. 58, fig. 8), СРС 5861, AGSO, Canberra


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Fig. 220,5. *H. las, Upper Cambrian (Mindyallan, Erediaspis eretes Zone), Australia (Glenormiston district, western Queensland), holotype, pygidium, CPC 5861, X16 (new)."


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Australia (Queensland), E. eretes to A. quasivespa Zones; Iran, Drepanura Zone; Canada (Northwest Territories), Cedaria selwyni to C. brevifrons Zones; USA (Montana), Crepicephalus Zone.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
lower Upper Cambrian
    Beginning International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 3
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
521
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
lower Upper Cambrian
    Ending International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 4
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
512.3


Description

Cephalon and pygidium transverse, en grande tenue, with subdeliquiate border furrows and narrow border on cephalon and moderately wide border on pygidium. Median preglabellar furrow broad, short. Glabella relatively long with short (sag.), subtriangular to ogival anterior lobe, F3 straight, posterior lobe with weakly developed F2 and broadly rounded glabellar culmination, glabellar node absent. Pygidial axis tapering forward from middle of posterior lobe with constriction across M2 weak or absent, F1 and F2 furrows effaced.




References



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