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AINIKTOZOON
(ay-nik-to-zoon)
Ainiktozoon
Named By: D. J. Scourfield in 1937
Time Period: Ludlow
Location: Scotland
Size: Unavailable
Diet: Detritivore
Fossil(s): Individuals preserved flat on rock slabs
Classification: | Arthropoda | Crustacea | Thylacocephala | Concavicarida |
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Ainiktozoon loganense is an enigmatic fossil organism from the Silurian of Scotland. Originally described as an early chordate, recent studies suggest that it was in fact an arthropod, more precisely a thylacocephalid crustacean.

A. loganense is known from a number of specimens from Silurian rocks (Ludlow series) at Lesmahagow in Scotland.

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