Collinsovermis

Collinsovermis is a genus of extinct panarthropod belonging to the group Lobopodia and known from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada.

[3] Collinsovermis was discovered in 1983 by Desmond H. Collins, curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum, from an expedition at Mount Stephen at the Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada.

[7] Collinsovermis is a tiny worm-like soft bodied animal measuring about 3 cm long with multiple pairs of stump legs called lobopods.

[2] Collinsovermis is regarded as characteristically most closely related to Acinocricus, with the major differences being large size (up to 10 cm long), five pairs of anterior legs, absence of sclerites and presence of numerous rows of back spines in the latter.

[14][15][2] Like other "luolishaniid" lobopodians, Collinsovermis is thought to have been a sessile suspension feeder, using the posterior pairs of limbs to anchor itself to a substrate, while using its spinose anterior appendages to catch small food particles.

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