Mureropodia

Mureropodia
Temporal range: Cambrian Series 2
Digitally enhanced photograph of the fossil[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Lobopodia
Class: Xenusia
Genus: Mureropodia
Species: M. apae
Binomial name
Mureropodia apae
Gámez et al., 2011

Mureropodia is a lobopodian in the class Xenusia, which existed in what is now Spain during the early Cambrian period. It was described by José Antonio Gámez Vintaned, Eladio Liñán and Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev in 2011, and the type species is M. apae.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Vintaned, José Antonio Gámez; Liñán, Eladio; Zhuravlev, Andrey Yu (2011). "A New Early Cambrian Lobopod-Bearing Animal (Murero, Spain) and the Problem of the Ecdysozoan Early Diversification". In Pontarotti, Pierre. Evolutionary Biology – Concepts, Biodiversity, Macroevolution and Genome Evolution. pp. 193–219. ISBN 978-3-642-20762-4. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20763-1_12.
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