Agnostotes

{{Short description|Genus of trilobite}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|501|499|{{cite web |title=Agnostotes |url=https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4639256.html |website=www.Mindat.org}}}} 501-499 mya Miaolingian(middle Cambrian

| taxon = Agnostotes

| authority = Öpik, 1963

}}

Agnostotes is a genus of artiopodan arthropod in the family Diplagnostidae of the order Agnostida.{{cite web |title=AGNOSTIDA FACT SHEET |url=https://www.trilobites.info/ordagnostida.htm |website=trilobites.info}}{{cite web |title=Agnostotes |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=19175 |website=Paleobiology Database}} It was a widely distributed genus.{{cite web |last1=Peng |first1=Schanchi |last2=Babcock |first2=Loren E. |title=Two Cambrian agnostoid trilobites, Agnostotes orientalis (Kobayashi, 1935) and Lotagnostus americanus (Billings, 1860): Key species for defining global stages of the Cambrian System |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/657318199?sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals}}

Use in stratigraphy

The base of the Jiangshanian stage is the FAD of A. orientalis.{{cite web |title=GSSP for Jiangshanian Stage |url=https://stratigraphy.org/gssps/jiangshanian}}

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