Agraulos

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Clade:Artiopoda
Class:Trilobita
Order:Ptychopariida
Agraulos
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian
~510–499 Ma
Agraulos ceticephalus Menevia Formation, Wales
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Artiopoda
Class: Trilobita
Order: Ptychopariida
Family: Agraulidae
Genus: Agraulos
Hawle & Corda, 1847
Species
  • A. ceticephalus (Barrande, 1846)
  • A. socialis (Billings, 1872)
  • A. affinis (Billings, 1872)
  • A. lewisi Fletcher, 2017
Synonyms
Agraulos synonymy
  • Arion
    Barrande, 1846
  • non Arion
    Férussac, 1819
  • Arionides
    Barrande, 1847
  • Arionellus
    Barrande, 1850
  • Agrauloides
    Howell, 1937
A. ceticephalus synonymy
  • Arion ceticephalus
  • Arionides ceticephalus
  • Arionellus ceticephalus
  • Arionellus longicephalus

Agraulos is a genus of Solenopleuridae[1] trilobites that lived during the Middle Cambrian in North America and Europe, particularly the Czech Republic. The genus was named by Hawle & Corda in 1847.[2]

Agraulos is derived from the Greek Ἄγραυλος, "country woman", wife of Kekrops.[3]

Type species

Type species (designated by Miller 1889).[4] Arion ceticephalus Barrande, 1846 [5] from the Cambrian Eccaparadoxides pusillus Zone in the Skryje Member of the Buchava Formation, within the Skryje–Tyrovice Basin, Bohemia.

Diagnosis

Agraulinae with cephala generally domed; glabella isosceles-trapezoidal, i.e. with truncate front and base angles of the forward-converging lateral margins/flanks more than 15°; occipital ring mesially swollen backwards, with or without a medial node or spine; preglabellar field relatively long (sag.); posterolateral projection of fixigena narrow (tr.); librigenal spines short to long, with some deflected outwards. Thorax of up to 16 segments with first anterior axial rings marked by terrace lines immediately succeeded in some species by rings bearing incipient median nodes or incipient/prominent spines; thoracic segments finely punctate or granulate. Pygidium, small and transverse (Fletcher, 2017, pp, 9,10).

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