Adelogonus
Extinct genus of trilobite
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Adelogonus is an extinct genus of damesellid odontopleurid trilobite. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period.[1] Adelogonus pritchardi was found in 2018 by Smith, Patterson, and Brock[2] at the Goyder Formation, Amadeus Basin, Central Australia.[3] Adelogonus solus was discovered in 1967 by Öpik from the O’Hara Shale in the Georgina Basin.[4] Adelogonus hunanensis was discovered by Babcock, Peng, and Lin in 2013 in the Guzhangian Huaqiao Formation in the Hunan Province, South China.[5] And Adelogonus oblongus discovered in 2013 by Lin, Peng, and Yang.[2]
| Adelogonus Temporal range: Dresbachian[1] | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Odontopleurida |
| Family: | †Damesellidae |
| Genus: | †Adelogonus |
