Plumulites

Plumulites is an extinct genus of machaeridians that existed from 480 million years ago until about 250 million years ago. This armoured annelid worm is the relative of the modern-day earthworm, leech and bristleworm. Fewer than ten fossils of Plumulites have been found.[1]

Plumulites canadensis
Temporal range: Ordovician–Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Annelida
Order:
Machaeridia
Family:
Plumulitidae
Genus:
†Plumulites
Species

Plumulites canadensis (Woodward, 1889)
Plumulites lamonti Candela & Crighton, 2017

Included species are Plumulites canadensis[2] and Plumulites lamonti.[3]


References
  1. Vinther, J.; Van Roy, P.; Briggs, D. (2008). "Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids". Nature. 451 (7175): 185–188. Bibcode:2008Natur.451..185V. doi:10.1038/nature06474. PMID 18185586. S2CID 4401508.
  2. Jakob Vinther & David Rudkin (2010). "The first articulated specimen of Plumulites canadensis (Woodward, 1889) from the Upper Ordovician of Ontario, with a review of the anterior region of Plumulitidae (Annelida: Machaeridia)". Palaeontology. 53 (2): 327–334. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00938.x.
  3. Y. Candela; W. R. B. Crighton (2017). "Addenda to the record of machaeridian shell plates in the Wether Law Linn Formation (Late Llandovery), Pentland Hills, Scotland". Scottish Journal of Geology. 53 (1): 35–39. doi:10.1144/sjg2016-006. S2CID 132750137.


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