Saccorhytus
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
Genus novum Han, Shu, Ou and Conway Morris, 2017, from Latin saccus (“sack, bag”) + Ancient Greek ῥυτίς (rhutís, “wrinkle”) in reference to the bag-like, wrinkled body of species Saccorhytus coronarius.[1]
Proper noun edit
†Saccorhytus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Saccorhytidae – a one-millimeter long bottom-dwelling aquatic creature, known from a fossil dated 540 million years ago, mistakenly thought the earliest known deuterostomes, which group includes all vertebrates.. It is actually an ecdysozoan, a type of protostome.
Hypernyms edit
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; †Saccorhytida - phylum
Hyponyms edit
- (genus): Saccorhytus coronarius - sole known species
References edit
- ^ Han, Jian, Simon Conway Morris, Qiang Ou, Degan Shu, and Hai Huang (2017) “Meiofaunal deuterostomes from the basal Cambrian of Shaanxi (China)”, in Nature,
Saccorhytus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Deuterostomia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Saccorhytus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
