Paucipodia
| Paucipodia inermis Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3 | |
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| reconstruction of P. inermis and Hallucigenia fortis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Superphylum: | Ecdysozoa |
| Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
| Class: | †Xenusia |
| Order: | †Archonychophora |
| Family: | †Paucipodiidae Hou et al., 2004 |
| Genus: | †Paucipodia Chen, Zhou & Ramsköld, 1995 |
| Species: | † P. inermis |
| Binomial name | |
| Paucipodia inermis Chen, Zhou & Ramsköld, 1995 | |
Paucipodia inermis is a lobopod known from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang lagerstätte.[1] Its gut is puzzling; in some places, it is preserved in three dimensions, infilled with sediment; whereas in others it may be flat. These cannot result from phosphatisation, which is usually responsible for three-dimensional gut preservation,[2] for the phosphate content of the guts is under 1% – the contents comprise quartz and muscovite.[1] It is reconstructed with no sclerites.[1]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 Xian-Guang Hou, Xiao-Ya Ma, Jie Zhao & Jan Bergström (2004). "The lobopodian Paucipodia inermis from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, Yunnan, China". Lethaia 37 (3): 235–244. doi:10.1080/00241160410006555.
- ↑ Nicholas J. Butterfield (2002). "Leanchoilia guts and the interpretation of three-dimensional structures in Burgess Shale-type fossils". Paleobiology 28 (1): 155–171. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028<0155:LGATIO>2.0.CO;2.
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