Hallucigenia
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For the album, see Hallucigenia (album).
Hallucigenia is a genus of lobopodian known from Cambrian aged fossils in Burgess Shale-type deposits in Canada and China, and from isolated spines around the world.[4] The generic name reflects the type species' unusual appearance and eccentric history of study; when it was erected as a genus, H. sparsa was reconstructed as an enigmatic animal upside down and back to front.[1] Lobopodians are a grade of Paleozoic panarthropods from which the velvet worms, water bears, and arthropods arose.[5][4]
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Hallucigenia | |
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Fossil holotype of Hallucigenia sparsa from the Burgess Shale | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
(unranked): | Panarthropoda |
Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
Clade: | †Hallucishaniids |
Family: | †Hallucigeniidae |
Genus: | †Hallucigenia Conway Morris, 1977[1] |
Species | |
Synonyms | |
Canadia sparsa |
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