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Paucipodia inermis; Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3 PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Reconstruction of P. inermis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
(unranked):	Panarthropoda
Phylum:	†"Lobopodia"
Class:	†Xenusia
Order:	†Archonychophora
Family:	†Paucipodiidae; Hou et al., 2004
Genus:	†Paucipodia; Chen, Zhou & Ramsköld, 1995
Species:	†P. inermis
Binomial name
	†Paucipodia inermis; Chen, Zhou & Ramsköld, 1995

Paucipodia inermis is a lobopod known from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang lagerstätte.^[1] Its gut is puzzling; in some places, it is preserved in three dimensions, infilled with sediment; whereas in others it may be flat. These cannot result from phosphatisation, which is usually responsible for three-dimensional gut preservation,^[2] for the phosphate content of the guts is under 1% – the contents comprise quartz and muscovite.^[1] Its fossils do not suggest it had any sclerites, especially when compared with the related Hallucigenia.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Xian-Guang Hou; Xiao-Ya Ma; Jie Zhao; Jan Bergström (2004). "The lobopodian Paucipodia inermis from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, Yunnan, China". Lethaia. 37 (3): 235–244. Bibcode:2004Letha..37..235H. doi:10.1080/00241160410006555.
^ Nicholas J. Butterfield (2002). "Leanchoilia guts and the interpretation of three-dimensional structures in Burgess Shale-type fossils". Paleobiology. 28 (1): 155–171. Bibcode:2002Pbio...28..155B. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028<0155:LGATIO>2.0.CO;2. S2CID 85606166.