Timorebestia

Timorebestia koprii
Temporal range:
3D reconstruction of Timorebestia koprii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chaetognatha
Genus: Timorebestia
Park et al., 2024
Species:
T. koprii
Binomial name
Timorebestia koprii
Park et al., 2024

Timorebestia koprii is an extinct species of stem-group chaetognath (arrow worm relative) that lived about 520 million years ago, in the Cambrian. Its fossils are known from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte in Greenland, and it was first described in 2024.[1]

  1. ^ Park, Tae-Yoon S.; Nielsen, Morten Lunde; Parry, Luke A.; Sørensen, Martin Vinther; Lee, Mirinae; Kihm, Ji-Hoon; Ahn, Inhye; Park, Changkun; De Vivo, Giacinto; Smith, M. Paul; Harper, David A. T.; Nielsen, Arne T.; Vinther, Jakob (2024). "A giant stem-group chaetognath". Science Advances. 10 (1): eadi6678. Bibcode:2024SciA...10I6678P. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adi6678. PMC 10796117. PMID 38170772.

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