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Acinocricus
Extinct genus of lobopodians / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acinocricus is a genus of extinct panarthropod belonging to the group Lobopodia and known from the middle Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah, United States. As a monotypic genus, it has one species Acinocricus stichus. The only lobopodian discovered from the Spence Shale, it was described by Simon Conway Morris and Richard A. Robison in 1988.[1] Owing to the original fragmentary fossils discovered since 1982, it was initially classified as an alga, but later realised to be an animal belonging to Cambrian fauna.[2]
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Holotype specimen on display at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
(unranked): | Panarthropoda |
Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
Family: | †Luolishaniidae |
Genus: | †Acinocricus Conway-Morris & Robison, 1988 |
Species: | †A. stichus |
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†Acinocricus stichus Conway-Morris & Robison, 1988 | |
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