Schinderhannes bartelsi

Schinderhannes bartelsi
Temporal range: Early Devonian 408–400 Ma
The holotype of Schinderhannes. Credit: Steinmann Institute/University of Bonn
Interpretive drawing made directly from holotype.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Order: Radiodonta
Family: Hurdiidae
Genus: Schinderhannes
Species:
S. bartelsi
Binomial name
Schinderhannes bartelsi
Kühl, Briggs & Rust, 2009

Schinderhannes bartelsi is a species of hurdiid radiodont (anomalocaridid), known from one specimen from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slates. Its discovery was astonishing because the latest definitive radiodonts were known only from the Early Ordovician,[1] at least 66 million years earlier than this taxon.[2]

  1. ^ Potin, G. J.-M.; Gueriau, P.; Daley, A. C. (2023). "Radiodont frontal appendages from the Fezouata Biota (Morocco) reveal high diversity and ecological adaptations to suspension-feeding during the Early Ordovician". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 1214109. doi:10.3389/fevo.2023.1214109.
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