Herpetogaster

Herpetogaster collinsi Temporal range: Middle Cambrian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Specimens and diagram
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Stem-group:	Ambulacraria
clade:	†Cambroernida
Genus:	†Herpetogaster Caron, Conway-Morris, & Shu 2010
Species:	†H. collinsi
Binomial name
Herpetogaster collinsi Caron, Conway-Morris, & Shu 2010

Herpetogaster is an extinct monotypic genus of animal from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale with a single species Herpetogaster collinsi.^[1] Six specimens of Herpetogaster are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise less than 0.01% of the community.^[2]

Restoration

References

1. ^ Caron, J.; Conway Morris, S.; Shu, D.; Soares, D. (2010). Soares, Daphne. ed. "Tentaculate fossils from the Cambrian of Canada (British Columbia) and China (Yunnan) interpreted as primitive deuterostomes". PloS one 5 (3): e9586. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009586. PMC 2833208. PMID 20221405. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2833208.  edit
2. ^ Caron, J. -B.; Jackson, D. A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS 21 (5): 451–465. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R.  edit

See also

• Herpetogaster at the Fossil Wiki.