Tegopelte

Tegopelte gigas
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian
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. 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.
  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.
  3. Chris Clowes. "Trilobite Origins". Peripatus. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
  4. Samuel M. Gon III. "Trilobite Systematic Relationships". A Guide to the Orders of Trilobites. Retrieved February 26, 2012.

External links