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Trisulcagnostus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Unknown
    Class:  
Trilobata
    Order:  
Agnostida
    Superfamily:  
Agnostoidea
    Family:  
Diplagnostidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Trisulcagnostus ERGALIEV, 1980, p. 116
    Type Species:  
T. trisulcus, OD, holotype (Ergaliev, 1980, pl. 18, fig. 13), 1950/289, GMAN, Alma-Ata


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Fig. 233,6. *T. trisulcus ERGALIEV; Upper Cambrian (Batyrbaian, Trisulcagnostus trisulcus Zone), Kazakhstan (Lesser Karatau Mountains); holotype, cephalon, GMAN 1950/289, × 10.2 (Ergaliev, 1980, pl. 18, fig. 13).


Synonyms

Pseudagnostus


Geographic Distribution

China (Anhui, Hunan); Kazakhstan, E. scrobicularis to T. trisulcus Zones.


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

Like Rhaptagnostus, but with narrow borders and nondeliquiate border furrows, well-defined median preglabellar furrow, and additionally a pair of transverse furrows crossing cephalic acrolobe from axial furrow to border furrow at level of anterolateral lobes of posterior glabellar lobe, pointed anterior lobe, papilionate, pygidium unknown.




References



Museum or Author Information

T, Ergaliev, 1980