Pseudoperipatus

Pseudoperipatus hintelmannae
Temporal range: Burgess Shale
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: Cycloneuralia
Phylum: incertae sedis
Genus: Pseudoperipatus
Species:  P. hintelmannae
Binomial name
Pseudoperipatus hintelmannae
Haug & Haug 2014[1]

Pseudoperipatus is a monospecific genus of annulated ecdysozoan worm known only from its posterior portion, from a single Burgess Shale specimen. Its rear termination ends in a pair of claw-like structures on 'appendages'.[2]

References

  1. Haug, J. T.; Haug, C. (2014). "A new cycloneuralian from the Burgess Shale with a palaeoscolecid-type terminal end". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 274: 73. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2014/0441.
  2. Haug, J. T.; Haug, C. (2014). "A new cycloneuralian from the Burgess Shale with a palaeoscolecid-type terminal end". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 274: 73. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2014/0441.
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