Captopodus
Genus of Devonian arthropod / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Captopodus is an extinct genus of stem-mandibulate known from the Early Devonian. This creature was described in 2012 from four fossils found in the Hunsrück Slate, an early Devonian lagerstätten in Germany that represents one of the few marine sites from the Devonian with soft tissue preservation.[1][2]
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Captopodus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Genus: | †Captopodus Kühl & Rust, 2012 |
Species: | †C. poschmanni |
Binomial name | |
†Captopodus poschmanni Kühl & Rust, 2012 | |
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