Orstenoloricus is a loriciferan larva, presumably from the stem group,[2] preserved by early three-dimensional mineralization in an orsten-type setting in the mid-Cambrian of Australia.[1] It somewhat resembles the larva of the unusual loriciferan Tenuiloricus.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Stem group: | Loricifera |
| Genus: | †Orstenoloricus Maas et al, 2009 |
| Species: | †O. shergoldii
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| †Orstenoloricus shergoldii Maas et al, 2009[1]
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References edit
- ^ a b Maas, A., Waloszek, D., Haug, J.T. & Müller, K.J., 2009:12:24. Loricate larvae (Scalidophora) from the Middle Cambrian of Australia. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 37, 281-302. ISSN 0810-8889.
- ^ Peel, J. S.; Stein, M.; Kristensen, R. M. B. (2013). "Life Cycle and Morphology of a Cambrian Stem-Lineage Loriciferan". PLOS ONE. 8 (8): e73583. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...873583P. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073583. PMC 3749095. PMID 23991198.
- ^ Neves, R. C. (2013). "A new type of loriciferan larva (Shira larva) from the deep sea of Shatsky Rise, Pacific Ocean" (PDF). Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 14 (2): 163–171. doi:10.1007/s13127-013-0160-4. S2CID 18628777.