Hallucigenia

__ Hallucigenia __
 * found in 1979 in canada A~A by conwon morris
 * .5 cm to 3 cm long

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//**Hallucigenia **// is an extinct genus of animal found as fossils in the Middle Cambrian-aged found in British Columbia, Canada. It was named by Simon Conway Morris  when he re-examined Charles Walcott's Burgess Shale genus Canadia in 1979. Conway Morris found that what Walcott had called one genus in fact included several quite different animals.  One of them was so unusual that nothing about it made any sense. Since the species clearly was not a polychaete worm, Conway Morris had to provide a new generic name to replace //Canadia //. Conway Morris named the species //Hallucigenia sparsa // because of its "bizarre and dream-like quality". 