Biology:Palaeoscolex
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Short description: Extinct genus of worms
| Palaeoscolex | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Class: | †Palaeoscolecida |
| Family: | †Palaeoscolecidae |
| Genus: | †Palaeoscolex |
Palaeoscolex is the type genus of the Palaeoscolecid worms, and served as a wastebasket taxon.[1] until its taxonomy was revised and many of its taxa assigned to Wronascolex.[2]
The type and only unequivocal species is P. piscatorum, known from mid-trunk segments.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Harvey, Thomas H. P.; Dong, Xiping; Donoghue, Philip C. J. (17 March 2010). "Are palaeoscolecids ancestral ecdysozoans?". Evolution & Development 12 (2): 177–200. doi:10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00403.x. PMID 20433458. http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/donoghue/PDFs/2010/Harvey_et_al_2010.pdf. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ↑ García-Bellido D.C., Paterson J.R., Edgecombe G.D. 2013. Cambrian palaeoscolecids (Cycloneuralia) from Gondwana and reappraisal of species assigned to ~Palaeoscolex~. Gondwana Res. 24:780–795.
- ↑ Whittard W.F. 1953. ~Palaeoscolex piscatorum~ gen. et sp. nov., a worm from the Tremadocian of Shropshire. Q. J. Geol. Soc. 109:125–135.
- ↑ Conway Morris S. 1997. The cuticular structure of the 495-Myr-old type species of the fossil worm ~Palaeoscolex~, ~P. piscatorum~ (?Priapulida). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 119:69–82.
Wikidata ☰ Q18519015 entry
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