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Palaeoscolex
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Class:	†Palaeoscolecida
Family:	†Palaeoscolecidae
Genus:	†Palaeoscolex

Palaeoscolex is the type genus of the Palaeoscolecid worms, and served as a wastebasket taxon. until its taxonomy was revised and many of its taxa assigned to Wronascolex.

The type and only unequivocal species is P. piscatorum, known from mid-trunk segments.

References

1. Harvey, Thomas H. P.; Dong, Xiping; Donoghue, Philip C. J. (17 March 2010). "Are palaeoscolecids ancestral ecdysozoans?" (PDF). Evolution & Development. 12 (2): 177–200. doi:10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00403.x. PMID 20433458. S2CID 16872271. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
2. García-Bellido D.C., Paterson J.R., Edgecombe G.D. 2013. Cambrian palaeoscolecids (Cycloneuralia) from Gondwana and reappraisal of species assigned to ~Palaeoscolex~. Gondwana Res. 24:780–795.
3. Whittard W.F. 1953. ~Palaeoscolex piscatorum~ gen. et sp. nov., a worm from the Tremadocian of Shropshire. Q. J. Geol. Soc. 109:125–135.
4. Conway Morris S. 1997. The cuticular structure of the 495-Myr-old type species of the fossil worm ~Palaeoscolex~, ~P. piscatorum~ (?Priapulida). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 119:69–82.

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