Saccorhytus

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Etymology

Genus novum Han, Shu, Ou and Conway Morris, 2017, from Latin saccus (“sack, bag”) + Ancient Greek ῥυτίς (rhutís, “wrinkle”) in reference to the bag-like, wrinkled body of species Saccorhytus coronarius.[1]

Proper noun

†Saccorhytus m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Saccorhytidae – a one-millimeter long bottom-dwelling aquatic creature, known from a fossil dated 540 million years ago, mistakenly thought the earliest known deuterostomes, which group includes all vertebrates.. It is actually an ecdysozoan, a type of protostome.

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References

  1. ^ Han, Jian, Simon Conway Morris, Qiang Ou, Degan Shu, and Hai Huang (2017) “Meiofaunal deuterostomes from the basal Cambrian of Shaanxi (China)”, in Nature, →DOI
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