Herpetogaster collinsi
Vendor: Gold Bugs
SKU Number: SQ4121581
A probable Herpetogaster from the Middle Cambrian, Pierson Cove Formation of Utah.
Herpetogaster is an extremely rare fossil from the Burgess Shale. There is a main body with a pair of branching tentacles at the front and a flexible stolon. These fossils are poorly understood.
Full dimensions are listed below.
Vendor: Gold Bugs
SKU Number: SQ4121581
A probable Herpetogaster from the Middle Cambrian, Pierson Cove Formation of Utah.
Herpetogaster is an extremely rare fossil from the Burgess Shale. There is a main body with a pair of branching tentacles at the front and a flexible stolon. These fossils are poorly understood.
Full dimensions are listed below.
Vendor: Gold Bugs
SKU Number: SQ4121581
A probable Herpetogaster from the Middle Cambrian, Pierson Cove Formation of Utah.
Herpetogaster is an extremely rare fossil from the Burgess Shale. There is a main body with a pair of branching tentacles at the front and a flexible stolon. These fossils are poorly understood.
Full dimensions are listed below.
Additional Information
Herpetogaster is a Burgess Shale fauna from the Cambrian Period that is also found in the Pierson Cove Formation of Utah.
Herpetogaster Herpetogaster is an extinct cambroernid genus that possessed a pair of branching tentacles and a tough but flexible body that curved helically to the right like a ram's horn. Herpetogaster was divided into at least 13 segments. An extensible stolon emerged from the body at the 9th segment and secured the animal to the sea floor.
The cambroernids are an unranked clade of animals that include a number of early Paleozoic genera whose affinities with other animals, living or extinct, have been uncertain.
