Ainiktozoon
Name:
Ainiktozoon.
Phonetic: Ay-nik-to-zoon.
Named By: D. J. Scourfield - 1937.
Classification: Arthropoda, Crustacea,
Thylacocephala, Concavicarida.
Species: A. loganense
(type).
Diet: Detritivore?
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Scotland.
Time period: Silurian.
Fossil representation: Individuals preserved flat on
rock slabs.
Ainiktozoon is an ancient crustacean noted for having a significantly large carapace.
Further reading
- An anomalous fossil organism, possibly a new type of chordate,
from the Upper Silurian of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire – Ainiktozoon
loganense, gen. et sp. nov. - Proceedings of the
Royal
Society B 121 (825): 533–547. - D. J. Scourfield -
1937.
- Ainiktozoon loganense Scourfield, a
protochordate? from the
Silurian of Scotland. - Alcheringa 9 (2): 117–142. -
A. Ritchie - 1985.
- The fossil Ainiktozoon is an arthropod. -
Nature 385
(6617): 589–590. - Wim van der Brugghen, Frederick R.
Schram & David M. Martill - 1997.
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