''Peronochaeta'' is a genus of
annelid
The annelids (Annelida , from Latin ', "little ring"), also known as the segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches. The species exist in and have adapted to various ecol ...
known from the Middle
Cambrian
The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized C with bar, Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million ...
Burgess Shale. 19 specimens of ''Peronochaeta'' are known from the Greater
Phyllopod bed, where they comprise < 0.1% of the community.
The genus was described by Conway Morris (1979)
and re-examined by Eibye-Jacobsen (2004).
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Burgess Shale fossils
Prehistoric annelid genera
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Cambrian genus extinctions