| Ainiktozoon loganense | |
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| Upside-down fossil specimen | |
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| Reconstruction | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Thylacocephala |
| Order: | †Concavicarida |
| Genus: | †Ainiktozoon Scourfield, 1937 |
| Species: | †A. loganense |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ainiktozoon loganense Scourfield, 1937 | |
Ainiktozoon loganense ("Logan's enigmatic animal", fromαἰνικτός (aíniktós, "riddling, enigmatical"),ζωόν living thing), is a fossilarthropod from theSilurian ofScotland.[1]It was found at the Birk Knowes site, part of thePatrick Burn Formation, nearLesmahagow.[2] Originally described as an earlychordate,[3]recent studies suggest that it was in fact an arthropod, more precisely athylacocephalancrustacean.[2]
