Peytoia

Pay-toy-ah.
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Benjamin Gutierrez

Vertebrate Paleontologist

Benjamin Gutierrez is a leading expert on dinosaurs, particularly the mighty theropods. His fieldwork in South America has uncovered new species and provided insights into dinosaur social structures.

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Name

Peytoia

Phonetic

Pay-toy-ah.

Named By

Walcott - 1911.

Classification

Arthropoda, Radiodonta, Anomalocarididae.

Diet

Carnivore.

Species

P. nathorsti

Size

Uncertain.

Known locations

Canada.

Time Period

Cambrian.

Fossil representation

Many specimens.

In Depth

       For a long time the Peytoia genus was once thought to represent a genus of jellyfish. Later however it was realised that this jellyfish was actually just the mouth of an anomalocarid arthropod. This means that in life Peytoia would have been more similar to other arthropods such as Anomolocaris.

Further Reading

– A morphological and taxonomic appraisal of the oldest anomalocaridid from the Lower Cambrian of Poland. – Geological Magazine. 152 (5): 949–955. – A. C. Daley & D. A. Legg – 2015.

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