Hallucigenia
Sign in to saveHallucigenia is a genus of lobopodian known from Cambrian-aged fossils in Burgess Shale-type deposits in Canada (Burgess Shale) and China, and from isolated spines around the world. The generic name reflects the type species' unusual appearance and eccentric history of study; when it was erected as a genus, H. sparsa was reconstructed as an enigmatic animal upside down and back to front. Lobopodians are a grade of Paleozoic panarthropods from which the velvet worms, water bears, and arthropods arose.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Hallucigenia is referenced by 66 other articles, and connects out to tardigrade, Onychophora and Lobopodia.
Vinony files it under Burgess Shale fossils, Cambrian genus extinctions and Maotianshan shales fossils.
Its subject is documented across 27 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Hallucigeniidae
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Hallucigenia is a genus of lobopodian known from Cambrian-aged fossils in Burgess Shale-type deposits in Canada (Burgess Shale) and China, and from isolated spines around the world. The generic name reflects the type species' unusual appearance and eccentric history of study; when it was erected as a genus, H. sparsa was reconstructed as an enigmatic animal upside down and back to front. Lobopodians are a grade of Paleozoic panarthropods from which the velvet worms, water bears, and arthropods arose.
==Description== thumb|Reconstructions of H. fortis, H. hongmeia, and H. sparsa in scale.
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