Ainiktozoon Explained

Ainiktozoon loganense ("enigmatic animal", from αἰνικτός (aíniktós, "riddling, enigmatical")), is a fossil arthropod from the Silurian of Scotland.^[1] It was found at the Birk Knowes site, part of the Patrick Burn Formation, near Lesmahagow. Originally described as an early chordate,^[2] recent studies suggest that it was in fact an arthropod, more precisely a thylacocephalan crustacean.^[3]

External links

• Web site: Images of Ainiktozoon . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070312033116/http://www.btinternet.com/~vendian/FOSSILWEB/images/ . 2007-03-12 . (see the files whose names start "ain")

Notes and References

1. A. Ritchie . 1985 . Ainiktozoon loganense Scourfield, a protochordate? from the Silurian of Scotland . . 9 . 2 . 117–142 . 10.1080/03115518508618961.
2. D. J. Scourfield . 1937 . An anomalous fossil organism, possibly a new type of chordate, from the Upper Silurian of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire – Ainiktozoon loganense, gen. et sp. nov . . 121 . 825 . 533–547 . 10.1098/rspb.1937.0001. free .
3. Wim van der Brugghen, Frederick R. Schram & David M. Martill . 1997 . The fossil Ainiktozoon is an arthropod . . 385 . 589–590 . . 10.1038/385589a0 . 6617.