Tegopelte
| Tegopelte gigas Temporal range: Middle Cambrian | |
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| Fossil at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Stem-group: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | †Helmetiida |
| Family: | †Tegopeltidae |
| Genus: | †Tegopelte Simonetta and Delle Cave, 1975 |
| Species: | † T. gigas |
| Binomial name | |
| Tegopelte gigas Simonetta and Delle Cave, 1975 | |
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
External links
- "Tegopelte gigas". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.