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This list contains many extinct arthropod genera from the Cambrian Period of the Paleozoic Era. Some trilobites, bradoriids and phosphatocopines may not be included due to the lack of literature on these clades and inaccessibility of many papers describing their genera. This list also provides references for any Wikipedia users who intend to ...
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Prehistoric arthropods of the Cambrian period, during the Paleozoic Era
Balhuticaris was the largest bivalved arthropod in the fossil record, beating the previous holders of this title Nereocaris exilis and Tuzoia. This animal's body was very long, and had extreme segmentation compared to other Cambrian arthropods, with over 100 distinct segments.
This is a list of the biota of the Burgess Shale, a Cambrian lagerstätte located in Yoho National Park in Canada. Restoration of the nektonic environment of the site, showing a pair of Anomalocaris canadensis hunting a school of Isoxys acutangulus. The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British ...
Radiodonta is an extinct order of stem-group arthropods that was successful worldwide during the Cambrian period. Radiodonts are distinguished by their distinctive frontal appendages, which are morphologically diverse and were used for a variety of functions.
With 30 legs and stretching some 8 inches long—a relatively large size for an animal for that specific geologic period, which likely allowed it to roam more open seas—O. alata and its method ...
Isoxyids are members of the order Isoxyida and the family Isoxyidae, a group of basal arthropods that existed during the Cambrian period. It contains two genera, Isoxys, with 20 species found worldwide, and Surusicaris known from a single species found in the Burgess Shale of Canada. They are distinguished by their bivalved carapaces and pair ...
The Cambrian explosion was a period of rapid multicellular growth. Most animal life during the Cambrian was aquatic. Trilobites were once assumed to be the dominant life form at that time, [58] but this has proven to be incorrect. Arthropods were by far the most dominant animals in the ocean, but trilobites were only a minor part of the total ...