Mallagnostus

Mallagnostus
Temporal range: Toyonian to early Middle Cambrian
Mallagnostus desideratus, cephalon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Agnostida
Family:
Weymouthiidae
Genus:
Mallagnostus

Howell, 1935
species
  • M. desideratus (Walcott, 1890b) synonym Agnostus desideratus
  • M. limbatus (Pokrovskaya, 1959) synonym Ladadiscus limbatus
  • M. llarenai (Richter & Richter, 1941)
Synonyms

Ladadiscus Pokrovskaya, 1959

Mallagnostus Howell, 1935,[1] is a trilobite genus belonging to the family Weymouthiidae Kobayashi T. (1943), [2] Order Agnostida Salter (1864) [3] according to Whittington et al. 1997. [4] It lived during the late Lower Cambrian, with remains found in USA (New York), Canada (Newfoundland), Spain, England, Russia (Tuva, Gorno-Altayskaya), Mongolia, and the early Middle Cambrian as reported from China (Tian Shan) and Russia (Yakutia).

  1. ^ HOWELL, B. F. 1935. Cambrian and Ordovician trilobites from Herault, southern France. Journal of Paleontology 9 (3): 222-238
  2. ^ KOBAYASHI, 1943. Brief notes on the Eodiscids 1, their classification with a description of a new species and a new variety, Proceedings of the Imperial Academy, Tokyo, Volume 19, pp. 37-42.
  3. ^ SALTER, J. W. 1864: On some new fossils from the Lingula-flags of Wales. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 20, 233–241.
  4. ^ WHITTINGTON, H. B. et al. Part O, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Revised, Volume 1 – Trilobita – Introduction, Order Agnostida, Order Redlichiida. 1997.