Armilimax

Armilimax Temporal range: Wuliuan PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Genus:	† Armilimax
Species:	†A. pauljamisoni
Binomial name
†Armilimax pauljamisoni Kimmig & Selden 2020

Armilimax (meaning 'armoured slug') is an extinct genus of shell-bearing slug-like animal known from a single specimen found in an exposed portion of the Spence Shale in the Wellsville Mountains in Box Elder County, Utah. As such, its morphology is ambiguous; it bears a seemingly U-shaped gut and, at the opposite end of its body, a shell without an apex. It has been tentatively interpreted as resembling Halkieria , but it does not contain sclerites. It is the first of its kind in the Great Basin. ^[1] Only one species is known: Armilimax pauljamisoni.

References

1. Kimmig, Julien & Selden, Paul A. (2020), "A new shell-bearing organism from the Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah", Palaeoworld, 30 (2): 220–228, doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2020.05.003