Ovatiovermis
| Ovatiovermis Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Restoration of Ovatiovermis cribratus | |
| Fossil holotype | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Panarthropoda |
| Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
| Family: | †Luolishaniidae |
| Genus: | †Ovatiovermis Caron & Aria, 2017 |
| Type species | |
| O. cribratus Caron & Aria, 2017 | |
Ovatiovermis is a genus of filter-feeding lobopodian known from the Burgess Shale. Like many lobopodians, it had nine pairs of lobopods (legs). It was well adapted to filter-feeding and probably did so from the nearest high vantage point.