Scleronychophora

Scleronychophora
Temporal range:
Fossil of Hallucigenia from the Burgess Shale
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: Panarthropoda
Phylum: †Lobopodia
Order: †Scleronychophora
Huo and Bergström 1995

The Scleronychophora or armoured lobopods are a group of lobopodians (such as the hallucigeniids and microdictyon) that bear a robust dorsal armature of paired plates.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Budd, G. (2001). "Tardigrades as 'Stem-Group Arthropods': The Evidence from the Cambrian Fauna". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 240 (3–4): 265–279. Bibcode:2001ZooAn.240..265B. doi:10.1078/0044-5231-00034. ISSN 0044-5231.


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