Tegopelte
| Tegopelte Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Holotype | |
| Diagrammatic reconstruction, showing top-down view (top) and view from below (bottom) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Order: | †Helmetiida |
| Family: | †Tegopeltidae |
| Genus: | †Tegopelte Simonetta and Delle Cave, 1975 |
| Species: | †T. gigas |
| Binomial name | |
| †Tegopelte gigas Simonetta and Delle Cave, 1975 | |
Tegopelte gigas (from the Greek tegos, "tile", and pelte, "leather-shield", referring to the shape of the dorsal body covering; gigas – from the Greek gigas, "giant", due to the huge size of the animal) is a species of large soft-bodied arthropod known from two specimens found in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada.