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Ainiktozoon loganense
Temporal range: Ludlow
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Fossil specimen
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Thylacocephala
Order: Concavicarida
Genus: Ainiktozoon
Scourfield, 1937
Species:
A. loganense
Binomial name
Ainiktozoon loganense
Scourfield, 1937

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]

References

  1. ^ A. Ritchie (1985). "Ainiktozoon loganense Scourfield, a protochordate? from the Silurian of Scotland". Alcheringa. 9 (2): 117–142. doi: 10.1080/03115518508618961.
  2. ^ a b Wim van der Brugghen, Frederick R. Schram & David M. Martill (1997). "The fossil Ainiktozoon is an arthropod" ( PDF). Nature. 385 (6617): 589–590. doi: 10.1038/385589a0.
  3. ^ D. J. Scourfield (1937). "An anomalous fossil organism, possibly a new type of chordate, from the Upper Silurian of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire – Ainiktozoon loganense, gen. et sp. nov". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 121 (825): 533–547. doi: 10.1098/rspb.1937.0001.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ainiktozoon loganense
Temporal range: Ludlow
O
S
D
C
P
T
J
K
N
Fossil specimen
Reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Thylacocephala
Order: Concavicarida
Genus: Ainiktozoon
Scourfield, 1937
Species:
A. loganense
Binomial name
Ainiktozoon loganense
Scourfield, 1937

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]

References

  1. ^ A. Ritchie (1985). "Ainiktozoon loganense Scourfield, a protochordate? from the Silurian of Scotland". Alcheringa. 9 (2): 117–142. doi: 10.1080/03115518508618961.
  2. ^ a b Wim van der Brugghen, Frederick R. Schram & David M. Martill (1997). "The fossil Ainiktozoon is an arthropod" ( PDF). Nature. 385 (6617): 589–590. doi: 10.1038/385589a0.
  3. ^ D. J. Scourfield (1937). "An anomalous fossil organism, possibly a new type of chordate, from the Upper Silurian of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire – Ainiktozoon loganense, gen. et sp. nov". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 121 (825): 533–547. doi: 10.1098/rspb.1937.0001.

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