Cardiodictyon
Cardiodictyon | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Superphylum: | Ecdysozoa |
Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
Class: | †Xenusia |
Order: | †Archonychophora |
Family: | †Cardiodictyidae |
Genus: | †Cardiodictyon |
Cardiodictyon is a genus of lobopodian known from the Chengjiang Lagerstätten. It has ~25 pairs of legs, each associated with a pair of dorsal plates.
Each leg terminates in a pair of claws.[1] It may or may not have a head shield.[2]
- ↑ Ramsköld, L., & Chen, J.-Y. (1998). Cambrian Lobopodians: Morphology and Phylogeny. In Arthropod fossils and phylogeny (pp. 107–150). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231096546
- ↑ Bergstrom, J.; Hou, X. (2001). "Cambrian Onychophora or Xenusians". Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology 240 (3–4): 237–245. doi:10.1078/0044-5231-00031.