🐣🦋༼LIVING FOSSILS IN ANIMAL KINGDOM༽🐹🙊

 🐣🦋༼LIVING FOSSILS IN ANIMAL KINGDOM༽🐹🙊

🐾𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒔 - 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒐𝒅𝒂 

𝙸𝙽𝙵𝙾 : [Peripatus is of special interest because its body exhibits certain structures characteristic of annelids and other structures found only i Therefore, they are regarded to be an intermediate stage or connecting link between Annelida and Arthropoda.]

🐾𝑵𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒖𝒔 - 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒄

  

𝙸𝙽𝙵𝙾:The chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius) is a large, mobile cephalopod which is called a "living fossil" and has been the subject of poetry, artwork, math, and jewelry. They have even inspired the names of submarines and exercise equipment. These animals have been around for about 500 million years—even before the dinosaurs.

🐾𝑵𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒂 - 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒄. 

 𝙸𝙽𝙵𝙾:[It is considered to be connecting link between two phyla of annelida and mollusca.Neopilina galathae isa starting points in gastropod evolution.]

 

🐾𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚 -coelacanth fish (𝐏𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐬)

𝙸𝙽𝙵𝙾:[ it is a rare genus of fish which contains the only living species of coelacath,they are more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles and mammals) than to the common ray-finned fishes and cartilaginous fishes.]

🐾𝑺𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒅𝒐𝒏 - 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒆

𝙸𝙽𝙵𝙾: it is connecting link between amphibians and reptiles.

🐾𝑳𝒊𝒎𝒖𝒍𝒖𝒔 - 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒐𝒅𝒂

𝙸𝙽𝙵𝙾:[The horseshoe crab or Limulus polyphemus is a living fossil. These were the forms that are almost identical to the species which were present during the Triassic period 230MYA. Horseshoe crabs are not crabs in reality. They are related to the group of arachnids (spiders, scorpions, ticks and mites). They are the closest living relatives of the now extinct trilobites.]