Shergoldana is an extinct genus of fossil bilaterian worm-like organisms. It is described as having common features with Nemathelminthes, with a possible relation to an adult kinorhynch[2] or to the larval stage of a palaeoscolecid worm.[3] It has been described as the first occurrence of a free living Cycloneuralian from the Cambrian period.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Scalidophora |
| Genus: | Shergoldana Maas, Waloszek, Haug & Müller, 2007[1] |
| Species: | S. australensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Shergoldana australensis Maas "et al." 2007
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References
edit- ^ "Shergoldana Maas, Waloszek, Haug & Müller, 2007". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
- ^ "(PDF) A possible larval roundworm from the Cambrian 'Orsten' and its bearing on the phylogeny of Cycloneuralia".
- ^ Peel, J. S.; Stein, M.; Kristensen, R. M. (2013). "Life Cycle and Morphology of a Cambrian Stem-Lineage Loriciferan". PLOS ONE. 8 (8): e73583. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...873583P. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073583. PMC 3749095. PMID 23991198.