| Herpetogaster Temporal range: Early to mid Cambrian:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Superphylum: | Deuterostomia |
| Stem group: | Ambulacraria |
| Clade: | †Cambroernida |
| Genus: | †Herpetogaster Caron et al., 2010 |
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Herpetogaster is an extinct cambroernid genus of animal from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang biota of China, Blang Formation of China, Pioche Formation of Nevada and Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of Canada containing the species Herpetogaster collinsi and Herpetogaster haiyanensis.[1] [2][3][4]
- ^ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Conway Morris, Simon; Shu, Degan (2010-03-08). "Tentaculate Fossils from the Cambrian of Canada (British Columbia) and China (Yunnan) Interpreted as Primitive Deuterostomes". PLOS ONE. 5 (3): e9586. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...5.9586C. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009586. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 2833208. PMID 20221405.
- ^ Kimmig, Julien; Meyer, Ronald C.; Lieberman, Bruce S. (2019-01-01). "Herpetogaster from the early Cambrian of Nevada (Series 2, Stage 4) and its implications for the evolution of deuterostomes". Geological Magazine. 156 (1): 172–178. Bibcode:2019GeoM..156..172K. doi:10.1017/S0016756818000389. ISSN 1469-5081. S2CID 134642027.
- ^ Yang, Xianfeng; Kimmig, Julien; Lieberman, Bruce S.; Peng, Shanchi (2020-08-28). "A new species of the deuterostome Herpetogaster from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota of South China". The Science of Nature. 107 (5): 37. Bibcode:2020SciNa.107...37Y. doi:10.1007/s00114-020-01695-w. ISSN 1432-1904. PMC 7544619. PMID 32857275.
- ^ Yang, Xianfeng; Kimmig, Julien; Schiffbauer, James D.; Peng, Shanchi (2023-11-07). "Herpetogaster collinsi from the Cambrian of China elucidates the dispersal and palaeogeographic distribution of early deuterostomes and the origin of the ambulacrarian larva". PeerJ. 11: e16385. doi:10.7717/peerj.16385. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 10637255.