Enalikter

Enalikter ("scourger of the sea") is an extinct arthropod described from the middle Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte at the England–Wales border in UK.

Twelve trunk segments lack tergites, and is flexible to bend at least 90 degrees.

[1][4] Enalikter is probably related to Bundenbachiellus, a larger arthropod genus from later Early Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Germany, due to morphological similarities between the two genera, though the taxa are clearly distinct.

[1] The original description suggested that Enaliktidae belonged to Megacheira, a group of arthropods with similar looking cephalic appendages.

[3][4] Although it is likely to be an arthropod, its affinity as megacheiran is still questioned, due to the fact that homology between the cephalic appendages of the two groups is unclear.

Reconstruction of E. aphson