Carbotubulus
| Carbotubulus Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Panarthropoda |
| Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
| Clade: | †Hallucishaniids |
| Family: | †Hallucigeniidae |
| Genus: | †Carbotubulus Haug et al., 2012 |
| Species: | †C. waloszeki |
| Binomial name | |
| †Carbotubulus waloszeki Haug et al., 2012 | |
Carbotubulus is a genus of lobopodian known from the Carboniferous Carbondale Formation of the Mazon Creek area in Illinois, US. A monotypic genus, it contains one species Carbotubulus waloszeki. The animal was discovered and described by Joachim T. Haug, Georg Mayer, Carolin Haug, and Derek E.G. Briggs in 2012. With an age of about 300 million years, it is the first long-legged lobopodian discovered after the period of Cambrian explosion.