Home Plot Diversity Curves Tree of Life About Admin Login

Welcome to the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology!

Please enter a genera name to retrieve more information.

Search By:
and Class
and Order

Linguagnostus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Agnostida
    Superfamily:  
Agnostoidea
    Family:  
Diplagnostidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Linguagnostus KOBAYASHI, 1939a, p. 142
    Type Species:  
Agnostus kjerulfi Brögger, 1878, p. 65, OD, lectotype (SD WESTERGÅRD, 1946, p. 124, pl. 8, fig. 32), 28684, PMO, Oslo


Images

(Click to enlarge in a new window)

Fossil Image
Fig. 230,5a,b. *L. kjerulfi (B RÖGGER ), Middle Cambrian (Paradoxides forchhammeri beds), Norway (Krekling, Oslo district); a, paralectotype, cephalon, PMO 28682, ×5.5; b, lectotype, pygidium, PMO 28684, ×5.5 (new).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Sweden, England, P. punctuosus Zone; Denmark, P. davidis Zone; Norway, P. forchhammeri Zone; Wales, P. paradoxissimus Zone; Russia (Siberia, Tuva), Turkestan Mountain Range, Tadzhikistan; Kazakhstan, L. laevigata, Anopolenus, L. allachjunensis Zones; China (Hunan, Guizhou, Qinghai, Zhejiang), L. armata Zone; Australia (Queensland, Northern Territory), T. gibbus to L. laevigata Zones.


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

Nonscrobiculate, deliquiate border furrows, zonate pygidial border, pygidial acrolobe commonly constricted, median preglabellar furrow absent, Glabella with trapeziform to subrectangular anterior lobe, commonly with median sulcus, F3 clearly impressed, F2 weakly developed or absent, glabellar culmination narrowly rounded or angular, glabellar node about level with F2 furrows, Pygidium bispinose or trispinose, commonly with postaxial notch on margin, axis short, broadly ogival, unconstricted or slightly constricted across M2, F1 effaced to clearly impressed laterally, F2 effaced to clearly impressed, posterior lobe short, broad, subtriangular, with transverse depression at about midlength, Pygidial collar sinuous, extending onto acrolobe.




References



Museum or Author Information

PMO