Ilyodes

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Ilyodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Onychophora
Class: Udeonychophora
Order: †Ontonychophora
Family: †Helenodoridae
Poinar, 2005[1]
Genus: †Ilyodes
Scudder 1890
Species
  • I. divisa Scudder 1890[2]
  • I. (H.) opinata Thompson and Jones 1980[3]

Ilyoides (junior synonym: Helenodora) is an extinct genus of Onychophoran known from the Carboniferous period.[4] It may have one or two species; more study is needed to confirm this.[5] It is tentatively interpreted as having slime papillae.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Jr, P.; George, (2000). "Fossil onychophorans from Dominican and Baltic amber: Tertiapatus dominicanus n.g., n.sp. (Tertiapatidae n.fam.) and Succinipatopsis balticus n.g., n.sp. (Succinipatopsidae n.fam.) with a proposed classification of the subphylum Onychophora". Invertebrate Biology 119: 104. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00178.x. 
  2. ↑ Scudder, S.H. (1890). New Carboniferous Myriapoda from Illinois. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 4, 417–440.
  3. ↑ Thompson, I.; Jones, D. S. (1980). "A Possible Onychophoran from the Middle Pennsylvanian Mazon Creek Beds of Northern Illinois". Journal of Paleontology 54 (3): 588–596. doi:10.2307/1304204. JSTOR 1304204. 
  4. ↑ Poinar, G. (1996). "Fossil Velvet Worms in Baltic and Dominican Amber: Onychophoran Evolution and Biogeography". Science 273 (5280): 1370–1371. Bibcode:1996Sci...273.1370P. doi:10.1126/science.273.5280.1370. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Haug, J. T.; Mayer, G.; Haug, C.; Briggs, D. E. G. (2012). "A Carboniferous Non-Onychophoran Lobopodian Reveals Long-Term Survival of a Cambrian Morphotype". Current Biology. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.066. 
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