†Hallucigenia Conway Morris 1977 (velvet worm)
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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
Type: Hallucigenia sparsa
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Cambrian of China (9 collections)
• Delamaran of Canada (12: British Columbia)
Total: 21 collections including 25 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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