Eoagnostus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the terminal Lower Cambrian (Toyonian), until the earliest Middle Cambrian (earliest Kounamkites-zone, part of the lower Amgaian).[1]
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| Genus: | Eoagnostus Resser and Howell, 1938
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Distribution edit
- E. roddyi terminal Lower Cambrian of the United States (Bonnia-zone, Kinzers Shale, Lancaster, New York; Pennsylvania; Vermont)[2] and the early Middle Cambrian of Newfoundland, and Greenland (around the boundary of Ovatoryctocara-zone, Henson Gletscher Formation).[1]
- E. acrorhachis occurs in the terminal Lower Cambrian of the United States (Bonnia-zone, Hatch Hill, New York).[2]
Description edit
Almost identical to Archaeagnostus, but the frontal lobe of the central raised area of the cephalon (or glabella) is effaced, while the back of glabella is inflated.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d Naimark, E.B. (2012). "Hundred species of the Genus Peronopsis Hawle et Corda, 1847". Paleontological Journal. 46 (9): 945–1057. Bibcode:2012PalJ...46..945N. doi:10.1134/S0031030112090018. S2CID 85130465.
- ^ a b Whittington, H. B. et al. Part O, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Revised, Volume 1 – Trilobita – Introduction, Order Agnostida, Order Redlichiida. 1997
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