Priscansermarinus Temporal range: Burgess Shale |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Maxillopoda |
Infraclass: | Cirripedia |
Order: | Pedunculata |
Infraorder: | Lepadomorpha |
Family: | Cyprilepadidae |
Genus: | Priscansermarinus Collins & Rudkin, 1981 |
Species: | P. barnetti |
Binomial name | |
Priscansermarinus barnetti Collins & Rudkin, 1981 |
Priscansermarinus barnetti is an organism known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, which probably represents a species of lepadomorph barnacle.[1] Four specimens of P. barnetti are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed.[2]