Adelogonus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of trilobite}} {{Automatic_taxobox |fossil_range = Dresbachian<ref name="Sepkoski">{{cite journal |last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Trilobita entry) |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |pages=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class |access-date=2008-01-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060905162524/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=307&rank=class |archive-date=2006-09-05 }}</ref> |taxon = Adelogonus |authority = }}

'''''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.<ref name="Sepkoski"/> Adelogonus pritchardi was found in 2018 by Smith, Patterson, and Brock<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Adelogonus prichardi Smith & Paterson & Brock 2018, sp. nov. - Plazi TreatmentBank |url=https://treatment.plazi.org/GgServer/xhtml/038CC426FF98FFB3FF399BFFFEE4FC2B |access-date=2026-03-12 |website=treatment.plazi.org |language=en}}</ref> at the Goyder Formation, Amadeus Basin, Central Australia.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=Patrick M. |last2=Paterson |first2=John R. |last3=Brock |first3=Glenn A. |date=2018-03-18 |title=Trilobites and agnostids from the Goyder Formation (Cambrian Series 3, Guzhangian; Mindyallan), Amadeus Basin, central Australia |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29690342 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4396 |issue=1 |pages=1–67 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4396.1.1 |issn=1175-5334 |pmid=29690342}}</ref> Adelogonus solus was discovered in 1967 by '''Öpik''' from the O’Hara Shale in the '''Georgina Basin.'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Mindyallan fauna of north-western Queensland / by A. A. Opik - Catalogue {{!}} National Library of Australia |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/2128376 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250113074002/https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/2128376 |archive-date=2025-01-13 |access-date=2026-03-13 |website=catalogue.nla.gov.au |language=en}}</ref> Adelogonus hunanensis was discovered by Babcock, Peng, and Lin in 2013 in the Guzhangian Huaqiao Formation in the Hunan Province, South China.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Polymerid Tribolites from the Cambrian of Northwestern Hunan, China, Two-Volume Set - PDF Free Download |url=https://epdf.pub/polymerid-tribolites-from-the-cambrian-of-northwestern-hunan-china-two-volume-se.html |access-date=2026-03-13 |website=epdf.pub |language=en}}</ref> And Adelogonus oblongus discovered in 2013 by Lin, Peng, and Yang.<ref name=":0" />

== Etymology == Adelogonus pritchardi was named after C.E Prichard for his work on the Goyder formation, he was the one that coined its name.<ref name=":0" />

Category:Damesellidae Category:Odontopleurida genera Category:Cambrian trilobites Category:Fossils of China