Tegopelte

Tegopelte
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: incertae sedis
Genus: Tegopelte
Whittington, 1985

Tegopelte is a genus 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]

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References

  1. ^ 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. 
  2. ^ 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.