Cucumericrus
| Cucumericrus Temporal range: Cambrian Series 3–Middle Cambrian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Stem-group: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Dinocaridida |
| Order: | †Radiodonta |
| Family: | †Anomalocarididae |
| Genus: | †Cucumericrus Hou, Bergstrom & Ahlberg, 1995 |
| Species: | †C. decoratus |
| Binomial name | |
| Cucumericrus decoratus Hou, Bergstrom & Ahlberg, 1995 | |
Cucumericrus is a genus of anomalocaridid known from a few poorly preserved specimens. Its great appendages are never preserved,[1] but it does seem to bear walking legs, which have been interpreted as somewhere between lobopod legs and segmented arthropod legs.[2]
References
- ↑ Allison C. Daley & Graham E. Budd (2010). "New anomalocaridid appendages from the Burgess Shale, Canada". Palaeontology 53 (4): 721–738. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00955.x.
- ↑ Jan Bergström & Hou Xian-Guang (2003). "Arthropod origins" (PDF). Bulletin of Geosciences 78 (4): 323–334.
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