Biology:Ainiktozoon
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Short description: Extinct genus of crustaceans
| Ainiktozoon loganense | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Thylacocephala |
| Order: | †Concavicarida |
| Genus: | †Ainiktozoon Scourfield, 1937 |
| Species: | †A. loganense
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| †Ainiktozoon loganense Scourfield, 1937
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Ainiktozoon loganense ("enigmatic animal", from αἰνικτός (aíniktós, "riddling, enigmatical")), is a fossil animal from the Silurian of Scotland.[1] It was found at the Birk Knowes site, part of the Patrick Burn Formation, near Lesmahagow.[2] Originally described as an early chordate,[3] recent studies suggest that it was in fact an arthropod, more precisely a thylacocephalan crustacean.[2]
References
- ↑ A. Ritchie (1985). "Ainiktozoon loganense Scourfield, a protochordate? from the Silurian of Scotland". Alcheringa 9 (2): 117–142. doi:10.1080/03115518508618961.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wim van der Brugghen, Frederick R. Schram & David M. Martill (1997). "The fossil Ainiktozoon is an arthropod" (PDF). Nature 385 (6617): 589–590. doi:10.1038/385589a0. http://dare.uva.nl/document/32632.
- ↑ D. J. Scourfield (1937). "An anomalous fossil organism, possibly a new type of chordate, from the Upper Silurian of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire – Ainiktozoon loganense, gen. et sp. nov". Proceedings of the Royal Society B 121 (825): 533–547. doi:10.1098/rspb.1937.0001.
External links
- "Images of Ainiktozoon". Archived from the original on 2007-03-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20070312033116/http://www.btinternet.com/~vendian/FOSSILWEB/images/. (see the files whose names start "ain")
Wikidata ☰ Q2828150 entry
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