Badgiromorpha Mussini et al. 2025 (priapulid worm)

Badgiromorpha

Full reference: G. Mussini, Y. P. Veenma, and N. J. Butterfield. 2025. A peritidal Burgess‐Shale‐type fauna from the middle Cambrian of western Canada. Palaeontology 68(1):e70001

Parent taxon: Priapulida according to G. Mussini et al. 2025

Sister taxa: Acosmia, Archaeopriapulida, Archotuba, Corynetis, Eximipriapulus, Halicryptidae, Maccabeidae, Omnidens, Palaeoscolecidomorpha, Priapulidae, Priapulomorpha, Selkirkiimorpha, Sicyophorus, Tubiluchidae, Xiaoheiqingidae

Subtaxa: Badgiromorpha delicata

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Type: Badgiromorpha delicata

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Pika biota, below Mural Glacier, Jasper National Park (Cambrian of Alberta)

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