Quadratapora

Quadratapora
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 2
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Superphylum: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: †"Lobopodia"
Class: †Xenusia
Order: †Archonychophora
Family: †Eoconchariidae
Genus: †Quadratapora
Species
  • Q. zhenbaensis Hao and Shu, 1987 (type)
  • Q. tenuiporatum (Bengtson, Matthews and Missarzhevsky, 1986

Quadratapora is a genus of lobopodian known only from its biomineralized dorsal plates, which somewhat resemble those of Microdictyon.[1] Its fossils date to the Tommotian, representing (perhaps along with Rhombocorniculum)[2] the earliest record of lobopodians.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Zhang, X. -G.; Aldridge, R. J. (2007). "Development and Diversification of Trunk Plates of the Lower Cambrian Lobopodians". Palaeontology 50 (2): 401. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00634.x.
  2. ↑ Caron, J. -B.; Smith, M. R.; Harvey, T. H. P. (2013). "Beyond the Burgess Shale: Cambrian microfossils track the rise and fall of hallucigeniid lobopodians.". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1767): 20131613. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1613. PMID 23902914.