Louisella
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| Retouched images from Walcott's description of Miskoia, now synonymized with Louisella | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Stem group: | Priapulida (?) |
| Class: | †Archaeopriapulida |
| Family: | †Miskoiidae Walcott, 1911 |
| Genus: | †Louisella Walcott, 1911 |
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Louisella is a genus of worm known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. It was originally described by Charles Walcott in 1911 as a holothurian echinoderm,[1] and represents a senior synonym of Miskoia, which was originally described as an annelid.[2] Template:Gpb abundance It has been stated to have palaeoscolecid-like sclerites,[3] though this is not in fact the case.[4]
It's also been interpreted as an annelid [5] and a sipunculan,[6] (neither on particularly compelling grounds) and a pripaulid,[7] but it is more conservatively considered to represent an ecdysozoan worm;[4] deep ecdysozoan relationships are not yet well resolved, making a more precise affiliation challenging.
References
- ^ Durham, J. W. (1974). "Systematic Position of Eldonia ludwigi Walcott". Journal of Paleontology. 48 (4): 750–755. JSTOR 1303225.
- ^ Walcott, C. D. (1911). "Cambrian Geology and Paleontology II. Middle Cambrian annelids". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 57 (5): 109–145 – via Wikisource.
- ^ Conway Morris, S. (1997). "The cuticular structure of the 495-Myr-old type species of the fossil worm Palaeoscolex, P. piscatorum (?Priapulida)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 119: 69–82. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb00136.x.
- ^ a b Smith, M.R. 2015: A palaeoscolecid worm from the Burgess Shale. Palaeontology 58, 973–979. doi:10.1111/pala.12210
- ^ Madsen, F.J. 1957: On Walcott’s Supposed Cambrian Holothurians. Journal of Paleontology 31, 281–282.
- ^ Howell, B.F. 1962: Worms. In Moore, R. C. (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology W (Miscellanea), W144–W177. Geological Society of America, New York.
- ^ Conway Morris, S. 1977: Fossil priapulid worms. Special Papers in Palaeontology 20, 1–95.
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