Agnostotes orientalis

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Agnostotes orientalis
Temporal range: Jiangshanian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class:† Trilobita (?)
Order:† Agnostida
Family:† Diplagnostidae
Genus:† Agnostotes
Species:
†A. orientalis
Binomial name
†Agnostotes orientalis
(Kobayashi, 1935)
Synonyms
  • Agnostus (Ptychagnostus?) orientalis
    Kobayashi, 1935
  • Pseudoglyptagnostus clavatus
    Lu, 1964
  • Glyptagnostotes elegans
    Lazarenko, 1966
  • Agnostotes (Pseudoglyptagnostus) clavatus
    Lu in Lu & Lin, 1989
  • Agnostotes clavata
    Öpik in Peng, 1990
  • Agnostotes (Pseudoglyptagnostus) orientalis
    (Kobayashi, 1935)

Agnostotes orientalis is a species of agnostid trilobite belonging to the genus Agnostotes . It existed during the Jiangshanian Age (494 million years ago) of the Cambrian. It is an important index fossil in biostratigraphy.

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Description

Agnostotes orientalis, like all members of the suborder Agnostina, possesses two thoracic segments, has a cephalon and pygidium that are more or less the same size and shape (isopygous), and is completely blind. [1]

The axial lobe of the cephalon is narrow. At the front of the glabella is a notch (frontal sulcus), a characteristic unique to the species, making it easy to distinguish from other members of the genus. The posterior end of the axial lobe of the pygidium also widens significantly, another distinct characteristic of the species. Along the margins of the pygidium are a pair of very small backward-pointing spines. Both the pygidium and the cephalon are ornamented with small pits (scrobicules) and wrinkles, extending mostly inwards from the margins. These ornamentation are less numerous and distinct in younger specimens, increasing in number and depth as they grow. Older individuals also tend to have proportionally wider anterior ends of the pygidial axial lobe. [2]

Taxonomy

Agnostotes orientalis belongs to the genus Agnostotes of the family Diplagnostidae. [3] It was first described in 1935 by the Japanese paleontologist Teiichi Kobayashi as Agnostus (Ptychagnostus?) orientalis. However, Kobayashi's holotype consisted only of a badly preserved external mold of a fragmentary pygidium. This resulted in numerous other junior synonyms being assigned to further discoveries. It was reassigned to the genus Agnostotes in 1963 by the Estonian-Australian paleontologist Armin Aleksander Öpik. [2] [4]

Distribution

Agnostotes orientalis has been described from south China, southern Kazakhstan, Siberia, South Korea, and North America. [4]

Biostratigraphy

Agnostotes orientalis is used in biostratigraphy as an index fossil. Its first appearance at the GSSP section of the Huayansi Formation in western Zhejiang, China is defined as the beginning of the Jiangshanian Age (494 million years ago) of the Furongian Epoch (Upper Cambrian). [5] Its first appearance datum (FAD) also coincides with the FAD of the ptychopariid trilobite Irvingella angustilimbata . [4]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Shanchi Peng; Loren E. Babcock (2005). "Two Cambrian agnostoid trilobites, Agnostotes orientalis (Kobayashi, 1935) and Lotagnostus americanus (Billings, 1860): Key species for defining global stages of the Cambrian System". Geosciences Journal. 9 (2): 107–115. Bibcode:2005GescJ...9..107P. doi:10.1007/BF02910573. S2CID   128624926.
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  4. 1 2 3 Shanchi Peng; Loren E. Babcock; Roger A. Cooper (2012). "The Cambrian Period". In Felix Gradstein; James Ogg; Mark Schmitz; Gabi Ogg (eds.). The Geologic Time Scale 2012. Elsevier. pp. 451, 459. ISBN   9780444594259.
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