Halkieria evangelista

From Palaeos.org

HALKIERIIDAE
Halkieria: Halkieria obliqua (type); Halkieria evangelista; Halkieria parva	Sinosachites

Halkieria evangelista

Artwork © Stanton F. Fink

Halkieria evangelista is the first of the enigmatic "coat of mail" creatures known from complete articulated remains. It provides a rare glimpse of what many types of Cambrian animals previously known only from disarticulated sclerites may have looked like.

Informartion

• Phylum: unknown (="Procoelomata" in part)
  • Class: Coeloscleritophora
    • Order: Sachitida
      • Family: Halkieriidae
        • Genus: Halkieria
          • Species: evangelista

Horizon: Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland.

Age: Atdabanian (Early Cambrian)

Lifestyle: vagile benthos

Credits

MAK081115