Myxinikela siroka

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Hyperotreti
Classis: Myxini
Ordo: Myxiniformes
Genus: †Myxinikela

Species: †Myxinikela siroka

Name

†Myxinikela siroka Bardack, 1991

• Holotype: NEIU MCP 126, whole specimen.
• Type locality and horizon: Pennsylvanian age, from the Francis Creek Shale, Carbondale Formation of Will County, Illinois, USA.

Etymology: Named probably after D. Siroka and/or S. Siroka (author thanked both in the description for loan of the specimen), if named after both, specific epithet should be changed to sirokaorum.

References

• Bardack, D. 1991. First fossil hagfish (Myxinoidea): a record from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois. Science, 254: 701–703. DOI: 10.1126/science.254.5032.701 Reference page. 

• Gabbott, S.E., Donoghue, P.C.J., Sansom, R.S., Vinther, J., Dolocan, A. & Purnell, M.A. 2016. Pigmented anatomy in Carboniferous cyclostomes and the evolution of the vertebrate eye. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283(1836): 20161151. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1151 Reference page.