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Neoagnostus Kobayashi 1955

  • 1. Department of Geography, Geology, Environment and Planning, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705. jftaylor @ iup. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0162 - 0087
  • 2. Department of Physical Sciences, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri, 64093 loch @ ucmo. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4468 - 3512
  • 3. Department of Geography, Geology, Environment and Planning, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705. jftaylor @ iup. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0162 - 0087 & U. S. Geological Survey, MS 926 A, National Center, Reston, Virginia 20192. jrepetski @ usgs. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2298 - 7120 & Department of Geography, Geology, Environment and Planning, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705. jftaylor @ iup. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0162 - 0087

Description

Neoagnostus Kobayashi, 1955

Type species. Neoagnostus aspidoides Kobayashi, 1955, by original designation, from the McKay Group, British Columbia, Canada.

Diagnosis. The diagnosis of Naimark (2016, p. 61–62) that features a “V-shaped” F3 and chevron-shaped F2 glabellar furrows and pygidial axial furrows which fail to surround the posteroaxis, and a pair of inflated nodes located posterior to F2 is accepted.

Other species. N. bilobus (Shaw, 1951); N. longicolis Kobayashi, 1966; N. eckardti Jell, 1985; N. hangulensis Lu & Zhou, in Lu et al., 1981; N. shiziluensis Lu and Zhou, 1990; N. tarjensis (Gilberto, 2010); N. parki n. sp.

Discussion. Shergold(1975, 1977) considered Neoagnostus a subjective junior synonym of Pseudorhaptagnostus Lermontova, 1951, which he treated sensu lato. He described a “spectaculate” morphology in which the glabellar node lies posterior to the F2 glabellar furrow which he subdivided into multiple species groups. Among these “spectaculate” forms he included a “ Bilobus group ” that he acknowledged may have represented a genus-level grouping and which included Neoagnostus aspidoides, the type species of Neoagnostus. Shergold (1980) then provisionally recognized Neoagnostus as a valid genus. Shergold et al. (1990; Shergold & Laurie, 1997) sought to establish subgenera for Neoagnostus, a practice followed by some authors (Nielson, 1997). Naimark (2016) briefly discussed the nomenclatorial history of Pseudorhaptagnostus and revived the generic status of Neoagnostus without subgenera.

Notes

Published as part of Taylor, John F., Loch, James D. & Repetski, John E., 2024, Taxonomy and stratigraphic distribution of Lotagnostus (Agnostida: Agnostidae) and associated trilobites and conodonts in the Upper Cambrian (Furongian) of Laurentia, pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5422 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5422.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10805617

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Agnostidae
Genus
Neoagnostus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Agnostida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Kobayashi
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Neoagnostus Kobayashi, 1955 sec. Taylor, Loch & Repetski, 2024

References

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  • Naimark, E. B. (2016) Revision of Pseudorhaptagnostus Lermontova (? Trilobita, Agnostida). Paleontological Journal, 50, 54 - 68. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 0031030116010081
  • Shaw, A. B. (1951) The paleontology of northwestern Vermont. I. New Late Cambrian trilobites. Journal of Paleontology, 25, 97 - 114.
  • Kobayashi, T. (1966) The Cambro-Ordovician formations and faunas of South Korea, Part X. Stratigraphy of the Chosen Group in Korea and South Manchuria and its relation to the Cambro-Ordovician formations of other areas, Section B. The Chosen Group of North Korea and northeast China. Journal of Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Section II, 16 (2), 209 - 311.
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