Websteroprion

Websteroprion; Temporal range: Late Emsian-Early Eifelian; ~125 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Class:	Polychaeta
Genus:	†Websteroprion; Eriksson et al., 2017[1]
Species:	†W. armstrongi
Binomial name
	†Websteroprion armstrongi; Eriksson et al., 2017[1]

Websteroprion ("Webster's saw") is a genus of eunicidan polychaete that lived during the middle Devonian period in what is now Canada. It contains a single species, W. armstrongi, recovered from the Kwataboahegan Formation.[1]

References

Eriksson, Mats E.; Parry, Luke A.; Rudkin, David M. (February 2017). "Earth's oldest 'Bobbit worm' – gigantism in a Devonian eunicidan polychaete". Scientific Reports. 7 (2): 239–260. doi:10.1038/srep43061. PMC 5318920. PMID 28220886.

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