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Extinct genus of panarthropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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] Its fossils do not suggest it had any sclerites, especially when compared with the related Hallucigenia.[1]
Paucipodia inermis Temporal range: | |
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Reconstruction of P. inermis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
(unranked): | Panarthropoda |
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 | |
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