Saccorhytus
Translingual
editEtymology
editGenus 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