Hallucigenia - Wikipedia
Three species of Hallucigenia have been described. The first specimen, Hallucigenia sparsa , was discovered in Canada. Two other species, H. fortis and H. hongmeia , are represented by the Maotianshan Shales ' fossils of Chengjiang .
Hallucigeniidae - Wikipedia
With this relatively complete fossil, they assigned the animal to and reinterpreted Hallucigenia as a lobopodian, a legged worm-like taxon which were still thought to be exclusively related to onychophoran (velvet worm) at that time.
Hallucigenia sparsa - The Burgess Shale
Species name: Hallucigenia sparsa Remarks: Hallucigenia is regarded as a member of the “lobopodans,” a group of vermiform Cambrian organisms possessing pairs of leg-like extensions of the body.
Hallucigenia - Prehistoric Wildlife
Jun 4, 2016 · Hallucigenia was first identified as the Cambrian aquatic worm Canadia by Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1911. However a study of the Canadia fossils by Simon Conway Morris in 1977 brought to light the discovery that the fossils did not represent the same creature. Because of its bizarre appearance of spikes and ...
[PDF] Phylogeny of Hallucigenia - Semantic Scholar
Hallucigenia is an extinct genus from the lower-middle Cambrian. A small worm-like organism with dorsal spines, Hallucigenia is rare in fossil history, and its identity and morphology have often been confounded.
Palaeos Panarthropoda: Hallucigenia
Along with Anomalocaris, Hallucigenia sparsa is probably one of the best known Cambrian animals. Originally believed to be an annelid worm, it was famously misinterpreted by Simon Conway Morris, who named the genus Hallucigenia sparsa because of …
(PDF) A new species of Hallucigenia from the Cambrian Stage 4 ...
Feb 29, 2012 · A new species of Hallucigenia from the Cambrian Stage 4 Wulongqing Formation of Yunnan (South China) and the structure of sclerites in lobopodians. Bulletin of Geosciences
Hallucigenia's head | Nature
Jun 24, 2015 · In this issue, Smith and Caron 2 redescribe one of the most celebrated Cambrian animals, Hallucigenia sparsa, and document several new features of this species, including its pharyngeal teeth...
Hallucigenia’s head and the pharyngeal armature of early …
Jun 24, 2015 · Hallucigenia's strangeness is given shape in the form of a mouth surrounded by a ring of toughened plates and its throat lined with needle-like teeth.
A hypothetical reconstruction of Hallucigenia - Semantic Scholar
Feb 24, 2019 · Hallucigenia is an odd genus of Early Cambrian lobopod whose history is fraught with changes. Presented in this article are four reconstructions showing the three known species of Hallucigenia in further detail; culminating research into single reconstructions.