Saccorhytus

Translingual thumb Etymology Genus novum Han, Shu, Ou and Conway Morris, 2017, from mul la saccus sack, bag + mul grc ῥυτίς wrinkle in reference to the bag-like, wrinkled body of species Saccorhytus coronarius species.2017 Han, Jian, Simon Conway Morris, Qiang Ou, Degan Shu, and Hai Huang Meiofaunal deuterostomes from the basal Cambrian of Shaanxi (China) Nature 10.1038/nature21072 Proper noun †1 m genus family Saccorhytidae family a one-millimeter long bottom-dwelling aquatic creature, known from a fossil dated 540 million years ago, mistakenly thought the earliest known deuterostomes, which group includes all vertebrates. It is actually an ecdysozoan, a type of protostome. Hypernyms genus mul Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; †Saccorhytida phylum - phylum Hyponyms genus Saccorhytus coronarius species - sole known species References 1 Deuterostomia 1 mul Animals