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) is a species of large soft-bodied arthropod known from two specimens found in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada.
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| Diagrammatic reconstruction, showing top-down view (top) and view from below (bottom) | |
| Scientific 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 | |
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