Badgiromorpha delicata Mussini et al. 2025 (priapulid worm)

Badgiromorpha delicata

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

Belongs to Badgiromorpha according to G. Mussini et al. 2025

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GSC 143757. Its type locality is Pika biota, below Mural Glacier, Jasper National Park, which is in a Guzhangian peritidal shale/mudstone in the Pika Formation of Canada.

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Pika biota, below Mural Glacier, Jasper National Park

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