Artiopoda - Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Alternative combinations: Agnostus josepha, Pseudagnostus josepha
Synonym: Pseudagnostus vigilax Lu and Lin 1989
Belongs to Pseudagnostus according to R. E. Grant 1962
See also Lu and Lin 1989 and Peng and Robison 2000
Sister taxa: Pseudagnostus (Pseudagnostus), Pseudagnostus ampullatus, Pseudagnostus anhuiensis, Pseudagnostus benxiensis, Pseudagnostus bulgosus, Pseudagnostus canadensis, Pseudagnostus chinensis, Pseudagnostus communis, Pseudagnostus cyclopyge, Pseudagnostus dividuus, Pseudagnostus gyps, Pseudagnostus idalis, Pseudagnostus karatauensis, Pseudagnostus koerferi, Pseudagnostus leptoplastorum, Pseudagnostus marginisulcatus, Pseudagnostus medius, Pseudagnostus mestus, Pseudagnostus obsurdus, Pseudagnostus papilio, Pseudagnostus planulatus, Pseudagnostus praecurrens, Pseudagnostus primus, Pseudagnostus prolongus, Pseudagnostus pseudangustilobus, Pseudagnostus pseudocyclopyge, Pseudagnostus punctatus, Pseudagnostus rajovopsis, Pseudagnostus securiger, Pseudagnostus sericatus, Pseudagnostus subquadratus, Pseudagnostus vastulus, Litagnostus meniscus, Litagnostus levisensis, Rhaptagnostus langyashanensis, Rhaptagnostus simplex, Rhaptagnostus changshanensis, Rhaptagnostus elix, Rhaptagnostus auctor, Rhaptagnostus cyclopygeformis, Rhaptagnostus obsoletus, Rhaptagnostus ciliensis, Rhaptagnostus apsis, Rhaptagnostus anhuiensis, Rhaptagnostus pseudoconvergens, Rhaptagnostus convexiformis, Rhaptagnostus gunnari, Rhaptagnostus plenus, Rhaptagnostus bifax, Rhaptagnostus heteromorphus, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) dubius, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) hunanensis, Pseudagnostus (Sulcatagnostus) rugosus, Pseudagnostina douvillei
Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Taoyuanian of China (10 collections), the Russian Federation (1), South Korea (44)
• Cambrian of Canada (9: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon), China (31), the Russian Federation (1), South Korea (1), United States (21: Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas)
Total: 118 collections including 119 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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