''Paucipodia inermis'' is a
lobopod
The lobopodians, members of the informal group Lobopodia (from the Greek, meaning "blunt feet"), or the formally erected phylum Lobopoda Cavalier-Smith (1998), are panarthropods with stubby legs called lobopods, a term which may also be used as ...
known from the
Lower Cambrian Chengjiang lagerstätte.
Its gut is puzzling; in some places, it is preserved in three dimensions, infilled with sediment; whereas in others it may be flat. These cannot result from
phosphatisation, which is usually responsible for three-dimensional gut preservation,
for the phosphate content of the guts is under 1% – the contents comprise
quartz and
muscovite.
[ Its fossils do not suggest it had any sclerites, especially when compared with the related '' Hallucigenia''.]
See also
* Lobopod guts
References
Xenusia
Cambrian invertebrates
Fossil taxa described in 2004
†Paucipodia
Prehistoric protostome genera
Cambrian animals of Asia
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Cambrian genus extinctions