Tegopelte
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| Fossil at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Genus: | †Tegopelte Simonetta and Delle Cave, 1975 |
| Species: | †T. gigas
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| †Tegopelte gigas Simonetta and Delle Cave, 1975
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Tegopelte gigas is a species of soft-bodied arthropod known from two specimens from the Walcott Quarry.[1][2] Trackways that may have been produced by this organism or a close relative are known from the Kicking Horse Shale, stratigraphically below its body fossil occurrences.[1] T. gigas is the only species classified under the genus Tegopelte. It is usually classified under its own family Tegopeltidae, but is sometimes placed under the family Naraoiidae.[3][4]
References
- ^ a b Nicholas J. Minter, M. Gabriela Mángano & Jean-Bernard Caron (2011). "Skimming the surface with Burgess Shale arthropod locomotion". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (in press). doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.1986.
- ^ Harry B. Whittington (1985). "Tegopelte gigas, a second soft-bodied trilobite from the Burgess Shale, Middle Cambrian, British Columbia". Journal of Paleontology. 59 (5): 1251–1274. JSTOR 1305016.
- ^ Chris Clowes. "Trilobite Origins". Peripatus. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
- ^ Samuel M. Gon III. "Trilobite Systematic Relationships". A Guide to the Orders of Trilobites. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
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