''Ivshinagnostus'' is a genus of
trilobite
Trilobites (; meaning "three-lobed entities") are extinction, extinct marine arthropods that form the class (biology), class Trilobita. One of the earliest groups of arthropods to appear in the fossil record, trilobites were among the most succ ...
s in the order
Agnostida
Agnostida are an order of extinct arthropods which have classically been seen as a group of highly modified trilobites, though some recent research has doubted this placement. Regardless, they appear to be close relatives as part of the Artiopod ...
, which existed in what is now
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
. It was described by Ergaliev in 1980, and the type species is ''Ivshinagnostus ivshini''.
Available Generic Names for Trilobites
P.A. Jell and J.M. Adrain.
References
Agnostidae
Fossils of Kazakhstan
Agnostida genera
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