Paucipodia

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: Cambrian Stage 3 PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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

See also

• Lobopod guts