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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 ...
Prehistoric arthropods of the Cambrian period, during the Paleozoic Era. Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. ...
Although well preserved examples are sparse in the early fossil record, abathochroal eyes have been recorded in the lower Cambrian, making them among the oldest known. [101] Environmental conditions seem to have resulted in the later loss of visual organs in many Eodiscina.
One example is a fossil specimen of the Cambrian arthropod Mollisonia, which showed brain organization comparable with that of living spiders, scorpions and horseshoe crabs, Mussini said.
Opabinia regalis is an extinct, stem group arthropod found in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale Lagerstätte (505 million years ago) of British Columbia. [1] Opabinia was a soft-bodied animal, measuring up to 7 cm in body length, and had a segmented trunk with flaps along its sides and a fan-shaped tail.
There has been much debate as to which arthropod group is most closely related to the Myriapoda. [20] Under the Mandibulata hypothesis, Myriapoda is the sister taxon to Pancrustacea , a group comprising the Crustacea and Hexapoda (insects and their close relatives).
Every once in a while, evolution stumbles across a good idea and really runs with it. Despite its odd appearance, the Cambrian creature Odaraia alata—an arthropod whose taco-shaped carapace ...
The Cambrian explosion (also known as Cambrian radiation [1] or Cambrian diversification) is an interval of time beginning approximately in the Cambrian period of the early Paleozoic, when a sudden radiation of complex life occurred and practically all major animal phyla started appearing in the fossil record.