Microdictyon
| Microdictyon Temporal range: | |
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| Diagrammatic reconstruction of Microdictyon sinicum | |
| Microdictyon sinicum fossil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Panarthropoda |
| Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
| Class: | †Xenusia |
| Order: | †Archonychophora |
| Family: | †Eoconchariidae |
| Genus: | †Microdictyon Bengtson, Matthews & Missarzhevsky, 1986 |
| Type species | |
| Microdictyon effusum Bengtson, Matthews & Missarzhevsky, 1986 | |
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Microdictyon (Greek for 'small net') is an extinct genus of lobopodian worm characterized by its net-like sclerite armour plates, known from Cambrian deposits around the world. Soft-bodied fossils which preserve more than the sclerites are only known from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte of Yunnan, China.