Herpetogaster

Herpetogaster; Temporal range: Middle Cambrian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Specimens and diagram
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Genus:	†Herpetogaster; Caron, Conway-Morris, & Shu 2010
Species:	†H. collinsi
Binomial name
	Herpetogaster collinsi; Caron, Conway-Morris, & Shu 2010

Herpetogaster is an extinct monotypic cambroernid genus of animal from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale containing the species Herpetogaster collinsi.^[1] Six specimens of Herpetogaster are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise less than 0.01% of the community.^[2]

Restoration

References

↑ Caron, J.; Conway Morris, S.; Shu, D.; Soares, D. (2010). Soares, Daphne, ed. "Tentaculate fossils from the Cambrian of Canada (British Columbia) and China (Yunnan) interpreted as primitive deuterostomes". PLoS ONE. 5 (3): e9586. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009586. PMC 2833208. PMID 20221405.
↑ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022.

"Herpetogaster collinsi". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.
Herpetogaster at the Fossil Wiki.

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