Paucipodia inermis Temporal range:
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Reconstruction of P. inermis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
(unranked): | Panarthropoda |
Phylum: | † "Lobopodia" |
Class: | † Xenusia |
Order: | † Archonychophora |
Family: | †
Paucipodiidae Hou et al., 2004 |
Genus: | †
Paucipodia Chen, Zhou & Ramsköld, 1995 |
Species: | †P. inermis
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Binomial name | |
†Paucipodia inermis Chen, Zhou & Ramsköld, 1995
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Paucipodia inermis is a lobopod known from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang lagerstätte. [1] Its gut is puzzling; in some places, it is preserved in three dimensions, infilled with sediment; whereas in others it may be flat. These cannot result from phosphatisation, which is usually responsible for three-dimensional gut preservation, [2] for the phosphate content of the guts is under 1% – the contents comprise quartz and muscovite. [1] Its fossils do not suggest it had any sclerites, especially when compared with the related Hallucigenia. [1]
Paucipodia inermis Temporal range:
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Reconstruction of P. inermis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
(unranked): | Panarthropoda |
Phylum: | † "Lobopodia" |
Class: | † Xenusia |
Order: | † Archonychophora |
Family: | †
Paucipodiidae Hou et al., 2004 |
Genus: | †
Paucipodia Chen, Zhou & Ramsköld, 1995 |
Species: | †P. inermis
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Binomial name | |
†Paucipodia inermis Chen, Zhou & Ramsköld, 1995
|
Paucipodia inermis is a lobopod known from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang lagerstätte. [1] Its gut is puzzling; in some places, it is preserved in three dimensions, infilled with sediment; whereas in others it may be flat. These cannot result from phosphatisation, which is usually responsible for three-dimensional gut preservation, [2] for the phosphate content of the guts is under 1% – the contents comprise quartz and muscovite. [1] Its fossils do not suggest it had any sclerites, especially when compared with the related Hallucigenia. [1]