Peytoia

Peytoia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Radiodonta
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Classis: †Dinocaridida Ordo: †Radiodonta

Familia: †Hurdiidae
Genus: †Peytoia
Species: †P. infercambriensis – †P. nathorsti

Name

Peytoia Walcott, 1911: 55

Type species: Peytoia nathorsti Walcott, 1911, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Laggania Walcott, 1911: 52 [syn.: Conway Morris, 1978]
  • Type species: Laggania cambra Walcott, 1911 [= Peytoia nathorsti Walcott, 1911], by original designation.
• Pomerania Lendzion, 1975 (preoccupied)
  • Type species: Pomerania infercambriensis Lendzion, 1975 (preoccupied), by original designation
• Cassubia Lendzion, 1977
  • Type species: Cassubia infercambriensis (Lendzion, 1975), by original designation

References

Primary references

• Conway Morris, S. 1978. Laggania cambria Walcott: A composite fossil. Journal of Paleontology 52(1): 126–131. JSTOR .
• Walcott, C.D. 1911. Middle Cambrian Holothurians and Medusae. In: Cambrian geology and paleontology. II. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 57(3): 41–68, pls. 8–13. BHL. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Conway Morris, S. & Robison, R.A. 1982. The enigmatic medusoid Peytoia and a comparison of some Cambrian biotas. Journal of Paleontology 56(1): 116–122. JSTOR . Reference page. 
• Daley, A.C. & Bergström, J. 2012. The oral cone of Anomalocaris is not a classic 'peytoia'. Naturwissenschaften 99: 501–504. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-012-0910-8 . Reference page. 
• Whittington, H.B. Briggs, D.E.G. 1985. The largest Cambrian animal, Anomalocaris, Burgess Shale, British-Columbia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B 309(1141): 569–609. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1985.0096 . Reference page.  [as synonym of Anomalocaris]