Biology:Armilimax

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Short description: Extinct genus of shelled animals

Armilimax
Temporal range: Wuliuan
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Genus: Armilimax
Species:
A. pauljamisoni
Binomial name
Armilimax pauljamisoni
Kimmig & Selden 2020

Armilimax (meaning 'armoured slug') is an extinct genus of shell-bearing slug-like animal known from a single specimen found in an exposed portion of the Spence Shale in the Wellsville Mountains in Box Elder County, Utah. As such, its morphology is ambiguous; it bears a seemingly U-shaped gut and, at the opposite end of its body, a shell without an apex. It has been tentatively interpreted as resembling Halkieria, but it does not contain sclerites. It is the first of its kind in the Great Basin.[1] Only one species is known: Armilimax pauljamisoni.

References

  1. Kimmig, Julien; Selden, Paul A. (2020), "A new shell-bearing organism from the Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah", Palaeoworld, doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2020.05.003 

Wikidata ☰ Q96372374 entry