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Nahannagnostus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Agnostida
    Superfamily:  
Agnostoidea
    Family:  
Diplagnostidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Nahannagnostus PRATT, 1992, p. 35
    Type Species:  
Pseudagnostus nganasanicus Rozova, 1964, p. 27, OD, holotype (ROZOVA, 1964, pl. 16, fig. 3), 113/875, CSGM, Novosibirsk


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Fig. 234,1a,b. *N. nganasanicus (ROZOVA ), Upper Cambrian (Ayusokkanian, Nganasan Gorizont), Russia (Kulyumbe River, northwestern Siberian Platform); a, cephalon, CSGM 113/999, ×10; b, holotype, pygidium, CSGM 113/875, ×5 (Rozova, 1964, pl. 16, fig. 3, 11).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Russia (Siberia), Ayusokkanian; Kazakhstan, Kormagnostus simplex Zone; Canada (Northwest Territories, Newfoundland), Cedaria selwyni to Cedaria brevifrons Zones; USA (Utah, Nevada, Missouri, Texas), Cedaria to Crepicephalus Zones; Australia (Queensland), Erediaspis eretes and Glyptagnostus stolidotus Zones; China (Hunan, Zhejiang), Glyptagnostus stolidotus Zone.


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

Cephalon and pygidium strongly convex, median preglabellar furrow well defined, anterior glabellar lobe extremely small, F3 partly effaced, axial glabellar node subcentral or slightly advanced. Pygidium with highly inflated deuterolobe, F1 and F2 mostly effaced, posterolateral spines minute.




References

Pratt, B. 1992. Trilobites of the Marjuman and Steptoean Stages (Upper Cambrian), Rabbitkettle Formation, southern Mackenzie Mountains, northwest Canada. Palaeontographica Canadiana 9:1-179, 34 pl .


Museum or Author Information

CSGM, Rozova, 1964