Paucipodia
Appearance
Paucipodia inermis Temporal range:
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reconstruction of P. inermis and Hallucigenia fortis | |
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] It is reconstructed with no sclerites.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Xian-Guang Hou, Xiao-Ya Ma, Jie Zhao & Jan Bergström (2004). "The lobopodian Paucipodia inermis from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, Yunnan, China". Lethaia. 37 (3): 235–244. doi:10.1080/00241160410006555.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Nicholas J. Butterfield (2002). "Leanchoilia guts and the interpretation of three-dimensional structures in Burgess Shale-type fossils". Paleobiology. 28 (1): 155–171. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028<0155:LGATIO>2.0.CO;2.