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Agraulos is a genus of Cambrian trilobites in the family Ptychopariidae. The genus was described by Joachim Barrande in 1846 and is especially associated with Middle Cambrian marine deposits in Bohemia, in the present-day Czech Republic. Like other ptychopariid trilobites, Agraulos had a segmented exoskeleton divided into a head, thorax, and tail, and it lived in ancient marine environments.
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What is Agraulos?
Agraulos is a genus of Cambrian trilobites in the family Ptychopariidae. It is especially associated with Middle Cambrian marine deposits in Bohemia.
Who described Agraulos?
Joachim Barrande described the genus in 1846. Barrande was a paleontologist known for studying fossil faunas from Bohemia.
Where is Agraulos especially well known from?
Agraulos is strongly associated with Bohemia, in what is now the Czech Republic. Its fossils come from Middle Cambrian marine rocks.
What kind of animal was Agraulos?
Agraulos was a trilobite, an extinct marine arthropod with a segmented mineralized exoskeleton. As a ptychopariid, it belonged to one of the diverse Cambrian trilobite groups.
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