Armilimax (meaning 'armoured slug') is an extinct genus of shell-bearing slug-like animal known from a single specimen found in an exposed portion of the Spence Shale in the Wellsville Mountains in Box Elder County, Utah. As such, its morphology is ambiguous; it bears a seemingly U-shaped gut and, at the opposite end of its body, a shell without an apex. It has been tentatively interpreted as resembling Halkieria, but it does not contain sclerites. It is the first of its kind in the Great Basin.[1] Only one species is known: Armilimax pauljamisoni.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Genus: | †Armilimax |
| Species: | †A. pauljamisoni
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| †Armilimax pauljamisoni Kimmig & Selden 2020
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References
edit- ^ Kimmig, Julien & Selden, Paul A. (2020), "A new shell-bearing organism from the Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah", Palaeoworld, doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2020.05.003
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