Paucipodia
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Paucipodia inermis Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3 |
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| reconstruction of P. inermis and Hallucigenia fortis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Superphylum: | Ecdysozoa |
| Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
| Class: | †Xenusia |
| Order: | †Archonychophora |
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†Paucipodiidae Hou et al., 2004 |
| Genus: |
†Paucipodia Chen, Zhou & Ramsköld, 1995 |
| Species: | †P. inermis |
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Paucipodia inermis Chen, Zhou & Ramsköld, 1995 |
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Paucipodia inermis is a lobopod known from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang lagerstätte. 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, for the phosphate content of the guts is under 1% – the contents comprise quartz and muscovite. It is reconstructed with no sclerites.
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