Ainiktozoon

<i>Ainiktozoon</i>

Ainiktozoon

Extinct genus of crustaceans

Ainiktozoon loganense ("enigmatic animal", from αἰνικτός (aíniktós, "riddling, enigmatical")), is a fossil arthropod 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]

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References

  1. [1]
    A. Ritchie (1985). "Ainiktozoon loganense Scourfield, a protochordate? from the Silurian of Scotland". Alcheringa. 9 (2): 117–142. doi:10.1080/03115518508618961.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    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.


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