Paucipodia
Extinct genus of panarthropods
Paucipodia inermis Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3 PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Reconstruction of P. inermis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
(unranked): | Panarthropoda |
Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
Class: | †Xenusia |
Order: | †Archonychophora |
Family: | †Paucipodiidae Hou et al., 2004 |
Genus: | †Paucipodia Chen, Zhou & Ramsköld, 1995 |
Species: | †P. inermis |
Binomial name | |
†Paucipodia inermis Chen, Zhou & Ramsköld, 1995 |
Paucipodia inermis is a lobopod known from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang lagerstätte.[1] Its gut is puzzling; in some places, it is preserved in three dimensions, infilled with sediment; whereas in others it may be flat. These cannot result from phosphatisation, which is usually responsible for three-dimensional gut preservation,[2] for the phosphate content of the guts is under 1% – the contents comprise quartz and muscovite.[1] Its fossils do not suggest it had any sclerites, especially when compared with the related Hallucigenia.[1]
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References
- ^ a b c Xian-Guang Hou; Xiao-Ya Ma; Jie Zhao; Jan Bergström (2004). "The lobopodian Paucipodia inermis from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, Yunnan, China". Lethaia. 37 (3): 235–244. Bibcode:2004Letha..37..235H. doi:10.1080/00241160410006555.
- ^ Nicholas J. Butterfield (2002). "Leanchoilia guts and the interpretation of three-dimensional structures in Burgess Shale-type fossils". Paleobiology. 28 (1): 155–171. Bibcode:2002Pbio...28..155B. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028<0155:LGATIO>2.0.CO;2. S2CID 85606166.
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- Kingdom: Animalia
- Superphylum: Ecdysozoa
- Clade: Panarthropoda
Hallucigeniidae | |
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Luolishaniidae |
"Gilled lobopodians" |
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- Category:Lobopodia