Priscansermarinus
| Priscansermarinus Temporal range: Middle Cambrian (Wuliuan), ~
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Superclass: | Multicrustacea |
| Family: | †Priscansermarinidae Newman, 2004 |
| Genus: | †Priscansermarinus Collins & Rudkin, 1981 |
| Species: | †P. barnetti
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| Binomial name | |
| †Priscansermarinus barnetti Collins & Rudkin, 1981
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Priscansermarinus barnetti is an organism known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale which was originally interpreted as a species of lepadomorph barnacle. Four specimens of P. barnetti are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed. A reflective area originally interpreted as external plates has been reinterpreted as a more complex structure inside the body; Derek Briggs, a leading authority on the arthropods of the Burgess Shale, has questioned its assignment as a barnacle or even an arthropod. The World Register of Marine Species places Priscansermarinus in Multicrustacea without assigning a class or order.