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| Diagrammatic reconstruction, showing top-down view (top) and view from below (bottom) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | †Trilobitomorpha |
| Subclass: | †Conciliterga |
| Genus: | †Tegopelte Simonetta and Delle Cave, 1975 |
| Species: | †T. gigas
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| †Tegopelte gigas Simonetta and Delle Cave, 1975
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Tegopelte gigas (from the Greek tegos, “tile,” and pelte, “leather-shield,” referring to the shape of the dorsal body covering; gigas – from the Greek gigas, “giant,” due to the huge size of the animal[1]) is a species of large soft-bodied arthropod known from two specimens found in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada.[2][3]
- ^ Tegopelte gigas. A giant trilobite-like arthropod. The Burgess Shale.
- ^ Nicholas J. Minter, M. Gabriela Mángano & Jean-Bernard Caron (2011). "Skimming the surface with Burgess Shale arthropod locomotion". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1733): 1613–1620. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.1986. PMC 3282348. PMID 22072605.
- ^ Harry B. Whittington (1985). "Tegopelte gigas, a second soft-bodied trilobite from the Burgess Shale, Middle Cambrian, British Columbia". Journal of Paleontology. 59 (5): 1251–1274. JSTOR 1305016.