†Hallucigenia Conway Morris 1977 (velvet worm)
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Full reference: S. Conway Morris. 1977. A new metazoan from the Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Palaeontology 20:623-640
Parent taxon: Hallucishaniids according to M. R. Smith and J.-B. Caron 2015
See also Bambach et al. 2007, Conway Morris 1977, Sepkoski 2002 and Smith and Ortega-Hernández 2014
Sister taxa: Carbotubulus, Hallucigeniidae, Luolishaniidae, Orstenotubulus, Rushtonites
Subtaxa: Hallucigenia fortis Hallucigenia sparsa
Type: Hallucigenia sparsa
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Delamaran of Canada (11: British Columbia collections)
• Cambrian of China (8)
Total: 19 collections including 22 occurrences
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