Priapulites
Appearance
Priapulites Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Priapulida |
Class: | Priapulimorpha |
Order: | Priapulimorphida |
Genus: | Priapulites |
Species: | P. konecniorum
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Binomial name | |
Priapulites konecniorum Schram, 1973
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Priapulites is the earliest-known crown-group priapulid, and is closely related to the Priapulidae.[1]
References
- ^ Budd, G. E.; Jensen, S. (2000). "A critical reappraisal of the fossil record of the bilaterian phyla". Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 75 (2): 253–95. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.1999.tb00046.x. PMID 10881389.