Shergoldana | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Clade: | Scalidophora |
Genus: |
Shergoldana Maas, Waloszek, Haug & Müller, 2007 [1] |
Species: | S. australensis
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Binomial name | |
Shergoldana australensis Maas "et al." 2007
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Shergoldana is an extinct genus of fossil bilaterian worm-like organisms. It is described as having common features with Nemathelminthes, with a possible relation to an adult kinorhynch [2] or to the larval stage of a palaeoscolecid worm. [3] It has been described as the first occurrence of a free living Cycloneuralian from the Cambrian period.
Shergoldana | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Clade: | Scalidophora |
Genus: |
Shergoldana Maas, Waloszek, Haug & Müller, 2007 [1] |
Species: | S. australensis
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Binomial name | |
Shergoldana australensis Maas "et al." 2007
|
Shergoldana is an extinct genus of fossil bilaterian worm-like organisms. It is described as having common features with Nemathelminthes, with a possible relation to an adult kinorhynch [2] or to the larval stage of a palaeoscolecid worm. [3] It has been described as the first occurrence of a free living Cycloneuralian from the Cambrian period.