Talk:Opabinia

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over sized ant head and bee like body —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.209.244.218 (talk • contribs)

Previous edifying comment courtesy of User:71.209.244.218. --DanielCD 03:33, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 curious/enigmatic 2 classification? 3 re: classification? 4 Size? 5 The link to the Smithsonian is broken

[edit] curious/enigmatic

I deleted the word "curious" from the first sentence today for being unencyclopedic. Another user then inserted "enigmatic", asking in the edit summary if "enigmatic" is more encyclopedic than "curious". I'm going to revert. In the case anyone disagrees, please post here first. Subversive 21:55, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] classification?

The taxonomic classification given here for Dinocarids is not in agreement with the one in Wikispecies. Note that Dinocarida is there described as a phylum, not a class; and that Opabinida is given as one of the order (presumably the one for Opabinia species), not Radiodonta. Does anyone know which one is right? Any new information on current taxonomical classification of Opabinids? (My guess is the Wikispecies people know best; if nobody answers, I'll change the classification to match what I see there.)

Another question: two sources (http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Fossil_Sites/Chengjiang/Chengjiang-Biota.htm and http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Lagerstatten/chngjang/) do not mention Opabinia species in the Maoshantian shales (with which Wikipedia agrees: see Maotianshan shales), but one does (http://wwwalt.uni-wuerzburg.de/palaeontologie/Stuff/casu30.htm). Does anyone know who is right? If there are Opabinidae in the Maotianshan shales, then I suppose the information should be here (as it currently is); but if there aren't, then it should be deleted from here. (My guess is the source that does mention Opabinia is wrong -- note that it still mentions Opabinia under Arthropods, and that it gives bibliographic sources for most species, but not for Opabinia.) --Smeira 00:34, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re: classification?

Can we not at least say Superphylum: Panarthropoda ? RV 28 January 2007

[edit] Size?

Are there any Inforations available about the Size of Opabinia? The size of the proboscis?

--84.57.40.83 11:58, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The link to the Smithsonian is broken

But I'm not sure where that link was supposed to point... is there someone able to recover the original page?

--User:ptoniolo 2007-09-01 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ptoniolo (talk • contribs) 22:59, 31 August 2007 (UTC)