Ainiktozoon loganense Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | † Thylacocephala |
Order: | † Concavicarida |
Genus: | †
Ainiktozoon Scourfield, 1937 |
Species: | †A. loganense
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†Ainiktozoon loganense Scourfield, 1937
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Ainiktozoon loganense ("enigmatic animal", from αἰνικτός (aíniktós, "riddling, enigmatical")), is a fossil arthropod from the Silurian of Scotland. [1] It was found at the Birk Knowes site, part of the Patrick Burn Formation, near Lesmahagow. [2] Originally described as an early chordate, [3] recent studies suggest that it was in fact an arthropod, more precisely a thylacocephalan crustacean. [2]
Ainiktozoon loganense Temporal range:
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Fossil specimen | |
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Reconstruction | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | † Thylacocephala |
Order: | † Concavicarida |
Genus: | †
Ainiktozoon Scourfield, 1937 |
Species: | †A. loganense
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Binomial name | |
†Ainiktozoon loganense Scourfield, 1937
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Ainiktozoon loganense ("enigmatic animal", from αἰνικτός (aíniktós, "riddling, enigmatical")), is a fossil arthropod from the Silurian of Scotland. [1] It was found at the Birk Knowes site, part of the Patrick Burn Formation, near Lesmahagow. [2] Originally described as an early chordate, [3] recent studies suggest that it was in fact an arthropod, more precisely a thylacocephalan crustacean. [2]