Microdictyon

Name: Microdictyon.
Phonetic: My-kro-dik-ton.
Named By: Bengtson, Matthews & Missarzhevsky - 1986.
Classification: Animalia,‭ ‬Onychophora.
Species: M.‭ ‬effusum‭ (‬type‭)‬,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬anus,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬chinense,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬cuneum,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬depressum,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬fuchengense,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬jinshaense,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬montezumaensis,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬rhomboidale,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬robisoni,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬rozanovi,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬sinicum,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬sphaeroides,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬tenuiporatum.
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Up to‭ ‬70-80‭ ‬millimetres.
Known locations: Australia,‭ ‬Canada,‭ ‬China,‭ ‬Greenland,‭ ‬Kazakhstan,‭ ‬Kyrgystan,‭ ‬Mexico,‭ ‬Russia,‭ ‬Turke,‭ ‬United Kingdom,‭ ‬USA.
Time period: Early Cambrian.
Fossil representation: Multiple individuals preserved flat on slabs.

       Microdictyon is a genus of Cambrian worm-like animal that lived on sea floors across the world.‭

Further reading
-‭ ‬Early Cambrian lobopodian sclerites and associated fossils from Kazakhstan.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Palaeontology.‭ ‬46:‭ ‬93.‭ ‬-‭ ‬J.‭ ‬dzik‭ ‬-‭ ‬2003.
-‭ ‬New Cambrian lobopods and chaetognaths of the Siberian Platform.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Paleontological Journal.‭ ‬40‭ (‬3‭)‬:‭ ‬234‭–‬243.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Yu E.‭ ‬Demidenko‭ ‬-‭ ‬2006.
-‭ ‬Development and Diversification of Trunk Plates of the Lower Cambrian Lobopodians.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Palaeontology.‭ ‬50‭ (‬2‭)‬:‭ ‬401.‭ ‬-‭ ‬X-G.‭ ‬Zhang‭ & ‬R.‭ ‬J.‭ ‬Aldridge‭ ‬-‭ ‬2007.
-‭ ‬Small shelly fossils from the Montezuman–Delamaran of the Great Basin in Nevada and California.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Journal of Paleontology.‭ ‬91‭ (‬5‭)‬:‭ ‬883‭–‬901.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Thomas Wotte‭ & ‬Frederick A.‭ ‬Sundberg‭ ‬-‭ ‬2017.

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