Paucipodia
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| Paucipodia inermis Temporal range:
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| File:海口贫腿虫 Paucipodia haikouensis-寒武纪 Cambrian-澄江生物群 Chengjiang Biota-澄江化石地世界自然遗产博物馆 2025-08-09.jpg | |
| Fossil of Paucipodia haikouensis | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Panarthropoda |
| Phylum: | †Lobopodia |
| Class: | †Xenusia |
| Order: | †Archonychophora |
| Family: | †Paucipodiidae Hou et al., 2004 |
| Genus: | †Paucipodia Chen, Zhou & Ramsköld, 1995 |
| Species: | †P. inermis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Paucipodia inermis Chen, Zhou & Ramsköld, 1995
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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]
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