Hallucigenia Conway Morris 1977 (velvet worm)

Hallucishaniids - Hallucigeniidae

Full reference: S. Conway Morris. 1977. A new metazoan from the Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Palaeontology 20:623-640

Parent taxon: Hallucigeniidae according to J.-B. Caron and C. Aria 2017

See also Bambach et al. 2007, Conway Morris 1977, Sepkoski 2002, Smith and Caron 2015 and Smith and Ortega-Hernández 2014

Sister taxa: Carbotubulus, Cardiodictyon, Thanahita

Subtaxa: Hallucigenia fortis Hallucigenia hongmeia Hallucigenia sparsa

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Type: Hallucigenia sparsa

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Cambrian of China (9 collections)

• Delamaran of Canada (12: British Columbia)

Total: 21 collections including 25 occurrences

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