Eokinorhynchus

Eokinorhynchus Temporal range: Cambrian, 535  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Holotype of Eokinorhynchus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Clade:	Scalidophora
Stem group:	Kinorhyncha
Genus:	† Eokinorhynchus
Species:	†E. rarus
Binomial name
†Eokinorhynchus rarus Zhang et al 2015 [1]

Eokinorhynchus is a Fortunian (earliest Cambrian) ecdysozoan known from three fossils. It is interpreted as a stem-group Kinorhynch, which would make it by far the earliest and indeed only reported member of this group from the fossil record. ^[1]

References

1. Zhang, Huaqiao; Xiao, Shuhai; Liu, Yunhuan; Yuan, Xunlai; Wan, Bin; Muscente, A. D.; Shao, Tiequan; Gong, Hao; Cao, Guohua (2015). "Armored kinorhynch-like scalidophoran animals from the early Cambrian". Scientific Reports. 5 16521. Bibcode:2015NatSR...516521Z. doi:10.1038/srep16521. PMC   4660871 . PMID   26610151.