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Idolagnostus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Agnostida
    Superfamily:  
Agnostoidea
    Family:  
Agnostidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Idolagnostus ÖРІК, 1967, p. 104
    Type Species:  
I. agrestis, OD, holotype (ÖPIK, 1967, pl. 60, fig. 8), CPC 5766, AGSO, Canberra


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Fossil Image
Fig . 222,7a,b. *I. agrestis, Upper Cambrian (Mindyallan, G. stolidotus Zone), Australia (Selwyn Range district, western Queensland); a, holotype, cephalon, CPC 5766, × 8; b, paratype, pygidium, CPC 5872, ×8 (new).


Synonyms

Diplagnostidae, Pseudagnostinae


Geographic Distribution

Australia (Queensland), Mindyallan–Idamean (E. eretes to S. diloma Zones); China (Qinghai), lower Upper Cambrian.


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 Cambrian
    Ending International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 10
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
486.85


Description

Small, nonscrobiculate, median preglabellar furrow well developed to absent. Glabella with small, triangular to ogival anterior lobe, F3 well developed and nearly straight, F2 usually well developed as transglabellar furrow, straight or curved forward, glabellar node a short distance behind F2 furrow, glabellar culmination elevated, broadly rounded to obtusely angular, basal lobes of moderate size. Pygidium nonspinose, axis long, strongly constricted across M2, F1 clearly impressed, curved forward, F2 clearly impressed, deflected rearward by axial node, posterior lobe expanded, subcircular, extending to or nearly to border furrow, with or without small terminal node.




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