Plumulites
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Plumulites canadensis (Woodward, 1889) | |
Plumulites is an extinct genus of machaeridians that existed from 480 million years ago until about 250 million years ago. This armoured annelid worm is the relative of the modern-day earthworm, leech and bristleworm. Fewer than ten fossils of Plumulites have been found.[1]
Included species are Plumulites canadensis[2] and Plumulites lamonti.[3]
References
- ^ Vinther, J.; Van Roy, P.; Briggs, D. (2008). "Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids". Nature. 451 (7175): 185–188. Bibcode:2008Natur.451..185V. doi:10.1038/nature06474. PMID 18185586.
- ^ Jakob Vinther & David Rudkin (2010). "The first articulated specimen of Plumulites canadensis (Woodward, 1889) from the Upper Ordovician of Ontario, with a review of the anterior region of Plumulitidae (Annelida: Machaeridia)". Palaeontology. 53 (2): 327–334. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00938.x.
- ^ Y. Candela; W. R. B. Crighton (2017). "Addenda to the record of machaeridian shell plates in the Wether Law Linn Formation (Late Llandovery), Pentland Hills, Scotland". Scottish Journal of Geology. 53 (1): 35–39. doi:10.1144/sjg2016-006.
External links
Data related to Plumulites canadensis at Wikispecies
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