{"id":4455,"date":"2017-05-31T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T08:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/?page_id=4455"},"modified":"2017-05-31T08:23:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T08:23:04","slug":"priapulida","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/?page_id=4455","title":{"rendered":"Priapulida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/34.32.27.218\/glossary\/p\/phylum\/\">phylum<\/a> of worm-like animals, the priapulids are also known as the \u2018penis worms\u2019 due to their shape. Priapulids are known from fossils as early as the <a href=\"https:\/\/34.32.27.218\/glossary\/c\/cambrian-period\/\">Cambrian<\/a> Period (e.g. <em>Ottoia<\/em> from the Burgess Shale) and are represented by about 20 extant species. They live in burrows in soft sediment and have an invertible proboscis \u2013 their mouth parts turn inside out to feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A phylum of worm-like animals, the priapulids are also known as the \u2018penis worms\u2019 due to their shape. Priapulids are known from fossils as early as the Cambrian Period (e.g. Ottoia from the Burgess Shale) and are represented by about 20 extant species. They live in burrows in soft sediment and have an invertible proboscis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":370,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4455","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4456,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4455\/revisions\/4456"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaeontologyonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}