| Captopodus Temporal range: Latest Pragian - Emsian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Genus: | †Captopodus Kühl & Rust, 2012 |
| Species: | †C. poschmanni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Captopodus poschmanni Kühl & Rust, 2012
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Captopodus is an extinct genus of stem-mandibulate known from the Early Devonian. This creature was described in 2012 from four fossils found in the Hunsrück Slate, an early Devonian lagerstätten in Germany that represents one of the few marine sites from the Devonian with soft tissue preservation.[1][2]
- ^ Kühl, Gabriele (28 June 2012). "Captopodus poschmanni gen. et sp. nov. a new stem-group arthropod from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Germany)". Arthropod Structure & Development. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2012.06.004.
- ^ Butterfield, Nicholas J. (2003). "Exceptional Fossil Preservation and the Cambrian Explosion". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 43 (1): 166–177. doi:10.1093/icb/43.1.166. PMID 21680421.