Boreognathus pogorevichi Shcherbakov et al. 2022 (worm)

Polychaeta - Eunicida - Atraktoprionidae

Full reference: D. E. Shcherbakov, A. B. Tzetlin, and A. Y. Zhuravlev. 2022. Boreognathus pogorevichi, a remarkable new polychaete annelid from the lower Permian of the Pechora Basin, Russia. Papers in Palaeontology 8(e1461)

Belongs to Boreognathus according to D. E. Shcherbakov et al. 2022

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PIN 1631/332, a cephalon/head (dorsal maxillary apparatus). Its type locality is Vorgashor, Well VK-1341, 379.5-382.0 m, which is in a Kungurian marginal marine siliciclastic in the Lek-Vorkuta Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Vorgashor, Well VK-1341, 379.5-382.0 m

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