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Tegopelte

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
†Helmetiida

Species
  
†T. gigas

Stem group
  
Chelicerata

Family
  
†Tegopeltidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

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Genus
  
†Tegopelte Simonetta and Delle Cave, 1975

Similar
  
Burgessia, Molaria, Odaraia, Naraoia, Emeraldella

Tegopelte gigas is a species of soft-bodied arthropod known from two specimens from the Walcott Quarry. Trackways that may have been produced by this organism or a close relative are known from the Kicking Horse Shale, stratigraphically below its body fossil occurrences. T. gigas is the only species classified under the genus Tegopelte. It is usually classified under its own family Tegopeltidae, but is sometimes placed under the family Naraoiidae.

References

Tegopelte Wikipedia