Biology:Keurbosia
| Keurbosia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Missing taxonomy template (fix): | Incertae sedis/Bilateria |
| Genus: | †Keurbosia |
| Species: | †K. susanae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Keurbosia susanae | |
Keurbosia is an enigmatic genus of Ordovician bilaterian[1] of unknown affiliation from South Africa .[2] The genus comprises a single species, Keurbosia susanae, which has yet to be formally described. It has been variously speculated to be related to arthropods or vertebrates.[2][3]
Discovery
The only two known specimens of Keurbosia susanae were discovered in 1998 in the Soom Shale of South Africa by a team from Leicester University.[2] It hasn't been formally described yet, and remains a nomen nudum.[1]
Description
Keurbosia had a compressed, bilaterally symmetrical segmented body of around 38 cm (15 in) in length, surrounded by pairs of flaps on each segment, imbricating with each other, as well as wider lobe-like appendages of unknown purpose. The animal was soft-bodied, and had around 45 segments.[1][4]
Its well-preserved internal anatomy shows a structure that has been interpreted as a notochord, from which branched a thick musculature.[2][1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Gabbott, Sarah E.; Browning, Claire; Theron, Johannes N.; Whittle, Rowan J. (2017). "The late Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstätte: an extraordinary post-glacial fossil and sedimentary record". Journal of the Geological Society 174 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1144/jgs2016-076. ISSN 0016-7649. Bibcode: 2017JGSoc.174....1G. http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513878/1/Gabbott.pdf.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Male, Alan (2012). "Pictures of new knowledge: a dilemma of fact or fantasy". Proceedings of the 2Nd International Conference of Art, Illustration and Visual Culture in Infant and Primary Education. https://www.academia.edu/29022209.
- ↑ "Research Imagery | Professor Alan Male". 25 September 2019. https://www.alanmale.com/research-imagery/.
- ↑ Aldridge, R.J., Gabbott, S.E. & Theron, J.N. 2001. The Soom Shale. In: Briggs, D.E.G. & Crowther, P.R. (eds) Palaeobiology II. Blackwell, Oxford, 340–342.
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