Lotagnostus

Lotagnostus
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Trilobita (?)
Order: Agnostida
Family: Agnostidae
Genus: Lotagnostus
Whitehouse, 1936
Species
  • L. americanus Billings, 1860
  • L. asiaticus Troedsson, 1937
  • L. attenuatus Rusconi, 1955
  • L. clarki Taylor, Loch & Repetski, 2024
  • L. ergoides Shergold, 1972
  • L. germanicus Matthew, 1901
  • L. hedeni Troedsson, 1937
  • L. irretinus Shergold, 1975
  • L. matthewi Westrop & Landing, 2017
  • L. obscurus Palmer, 1955
  • L. peladensis Rusconi, 1951
  • L. punctuatus Lu, 1964
  • L. salteri Westrop & Landing, 2017
  • L. spectabilis? Xiang & Zhang, 1985
  • L. trisectus Salter, 1864 (type)
Synonyms
  • Agnostus americanus - synonym of L. americanus
  • Agnostus hedeni - synonym of L. hedeni
  • Agnostus trisectus - synonym of L. trisectus
  • Agnostus trisectus germanicus - synonym of L. germanicus
  • Lotagnostus spectabilis? - synonym of L asiaticus

Lotagnostus is a genus of very small trilobites in the order Agnostida, which lived on the outer continental shelves worldwide, during the late Upper Cambrian. It was described by Whitehouse in 1936, and the type species is Lotagnostus trisectus, which was originally described as a species of Agnostus by Salter in 1864.