Tegopelte

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 (1 complete specimen was 27 cm[1]) soft-bodied arthropod known from two specimens from the Burgess Shale.[2][3] Trackways that may have been produced by this organism or a close relative are known from the Kicking Horse Shale, stratigraphically below its body fossil occurrences.[2] T. gigas is the only species classified under the genus Tegopelte. It is usually classified under its own family Tegopeltidae, but is sometimes placed under the family Naraoiidae.[4][5] It is currently considered a member of Conciliterga within the Artiopoda.[6]

Tegopelte
Temporal range:
Fossil at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: †Trilobitomorpha
Subclass: †Conciliterga
Genus: †Tegopelte
Simonetta and Delle Cave, 1975
Species:
†T. gigas
Binomial name
†Tegopelte gigas
Simonetta and Delle Cave, 1975

References
Comparison of Tegopelte and Naraoia compacta
  1. Tegopelte gigas. A giant trilobite-like arthropod. The Burgess Shale.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Chris Clowes. "Trilobite Origins". Peripatus. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
  5. Samuel M. Gon III. "Trilobite Systematic Relationships". A Guide to the Orders of Trilobites. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
  6. Paterson, John R.; García-Bellido, Diego C.; Edgecombe, Gregory D. (March 2012). "New artiopodan arthropods from the early Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte of South Australia". Journal of Paleontology. 86 (2): 340–357. Bibcode:2012JPal...86..340P. doi:10.1666/11-077.1. ISSN 0022-3360. S2CID 87520649.


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