Ainiktozoon
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Ainiktozoon loganense Temporal range: Ludlow |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Thylacocephala |
| Order: | Concavicarida |
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Ainiktozoon Scourfield, 1937 |
| Species: | A. loganense |
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Ainiktozoon loganense Scourfield, 1937 |
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Ainiktozoon loganense is an enigmatic fossil organism from the Silurian of Scotland. Originally described as an early chordate, recent studies suggest that it was in fact an arthropod, more precisely a thylacocephalid crustacean.
A. loganense is known from a number of specimens from Silurian rocks (Ludlow series) at Lesmahagow in Scotland.
The generic name Ainiktozoon is Greek for "enigmatic animal", from αἰνικτός (aíniktós, "riddling, enigmatical").
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