Lepidocoleidae

Lepidocoleidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Errantia
Order: Phyllodocida
Clade: Cuniculepadida
Family: Lepidocoleidae
Clarke, 1896

Lepidocoleidae is a family of polychaetes belonging to the order Phyllodocida.[1]


Lepidocoleidaes have an armor-like exoskeleton that consists of large enclosed mineralized calcite plates with two different crystalline layers with both rugae and growth lines on their external surface.

Genera:[1]

  1. ^ a b "Lepidocoleidae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  2. ^ Brandon Specktor: Fossils of 400-million-year-old 'Excalibur worm' discovered in Australia, on: LiveScience, 2 Dec. 2021