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Heimdallia

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Crustacea
Ichnogenus:†Heimdallia
Bradshaw, 1981[1]
Heimdallia
Temporal range: 478.6-466.0 Ma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: incertae sedis
Ichnogenus: †Heimdallia
Bradshaw, 1981[1]
Ichnospecies
  • †Heimdallia chatwini Bradshaw 1981[1]

Heimdallia is an ichnogenus comprising a strange planar trace that does not have a circular cross-section; its maker may have been fed upon by Beaconella.[2]

The trace was probably made by a small crustacean.[3]

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