Herpetogaster
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Stem group: | Ambulacraria |
| Clade: | †Cambroernida |
| Genus: | †Herpetogaster Caron, Conway-Morris, & Shu 2010 |
| Species: | †H. collinsi
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| †Herpetogaster collinsi Caron, Conway-Morris, & Shu 2010
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Herpetogaster is an extinct monotypic genus of animal from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale containing the species Herpetogaster collinsi.[1] Six specimens of Herpetogaster are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise less than 0.01% of the community.[2]
References
- ^ Caron, J.; Conway Morris, S.; Shu, D.; Soares, D. (2010). Soares, Daphne (ed.). "Tentaculate fossils from the Cambrian of Canada (British Columbia) and China (Yunnan) interpreted as primitive deuterostomes". PLoS ONE. 5 (3): e9586. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009586. PMC 2833208. PMID 20221405.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022.
External links
- Template:Burgess Shale species
- Herpetogaster at the Fossil Wiki.