Hallucigenia
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Hallucigenia is a genus of lobopodian known from Cambrian-aged fossils in Burgess Shale-type deposits in Canada and China, and from isolated spines around the world. The generic name reflects the type
USNM PAL 83935 Hallucigenia sparsa Image 1
Specimen with obvious spines
Restoration of H. sparsa
Onychophora
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Onychophora, commonly known as velvet worms, is a phylum of long, soft-bodied, many-legged animals. In appearance, they have variously been compared to worms with legs, caterpillars, and slugs. All li
Hallucigenia
…H. sparsa was reconstructed as an enigmatic animal upside down and back to front. Lobopodians are a grade of Paleozoic panarthropods from which the velvet worms, water bears, and arthropods arose. Hallucigenia sparsa was originally described by Charles Walcott as a species of the polychaete worm Canadia. In his…
Onycophora
Antennipatus SOT006706
Peripatoides novaezealandiae flipped upside down
Head region of Ooperipatellus viridimaculatus, showing its oral papillae and mouthparts