Carbotubulus

Carbotubulus
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Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
(unranked): Panarthropoda
Phylum: "Lobopodia"
Clade: Hallucishaniids
Family: Hallucigeniidae
Genus: Carbotubulus
Haug et al., 2012
Species:
C. waloszeki
Binomial name
Carbotubulus waloszeki
Haug et al., 2012

Carbotubulus is a genus of extinct worm belonging to the group Lobopodia and known from the Carboniferous Carbondale Formation of the Mazon Creek area in Illinois, US. A monotypic genus, it contains one species Carbotubulus waloszeki. It was discovered and described by Joachim T. Haug, Georg Mayer, Carolin Haug, and Derek E.G. Briggs in 2012. With an age of about 300 million years, it is the first long-legged lobopodian discovered after the period of Cambrian explosion.

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