Saccorhytus coronarius

Translingual

Reconstruction of Saccorhytus coronarius

Etymology

Genus from Latin saccus (“sack, bag”) + Ancient Greek ῥυτίς (rhutís, “wrinkle”) in reference to the bag-like, wrinkled body; species from Latin corōnārius (“crown”) for the crown-shaped mouth.^[1]

Proper noun

†Saccorhytus coronarius m

A taxonomic species within the family Saccorhytidae – an aquatic creature known from Cambrian fossils found in China.

References

Saccorhytus coronarius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Deuterostomia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Saccorhytus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Saccorhytus coronarius at Paleobiology Database

^ Han, Jian, Simon Conway Morris, Qiang Ou, Degan Shu, and Hai Huang (2017) “Meiofaunal deuterostomes from the basal Cambrian of Shaanxi (China)”, in Nature, →DOI

[1] Han, Jian, Simon Conway Morris, Qiang Ou, Degan Shu, and Hai Huang (2017) “Meiofaunal deuterostomes from the basal Cambrian of Shaanxi (China)”, in Nature, →DOI

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