Orstenoloricus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Stem group: | Loricifera |
Genus: | †Orstenoloricus Maas et al, 2009 |
Species: | †O. shergoldii
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Binomial name | |
†Orstenoloricus shergoldii Maas et al, 2009[1]
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Orstenoloricus is a loriciferan larva, presumably from the stem group,[2] preserved by early three-dimensional mineralization in an orsten-type setting in the mid-Cambrian of Australia.[1] It somewhat resembles the larva of the unusual loriciferan Tenuiloricus.[3]