A NEW EARLY CAMBRIAN ONYCHOPHORAN-LIKE ANIMAL, PAUCIPODIA GEN-NOV, FROM THE CHENGJIANG FAUNA, CHINA

Citation
Jy. Chen et al., A NEW EARLY CAMBRIAN ONYCHOPHORAN-LIKE ANIMAL, PAUCIPODIA GEN-NOV, FROM THE CHENGJIANG FAUNA, CHINA, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Earth sciences, 85, 1995, pp. 275-282
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Geology,Paleontology
ISSN journal
02635933
Volume
85
Year of publication
1995
Part
4
Pages
275 - 282
Database
ISI
SICI code
0263-5933(1995)85:<275:ANECOA>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
An onychophoran-like fossil animal, Paucipodia inermis gen. et sp. nov ., is described from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang lagerstatte in Yunn an, China. The animal was soft-bodied, and possessed six pairs of unjo inted legs, each having two claws distally. The body was finely annula ted, lacked trunk plates, and apparently terminated posteriorly with t he last leg pair, without preserved evidence of a posterior trunk exte nsion. Paucipodia widens the morphological range hitherto known in Cam brian lobopodians, notably regarding leg number and presence or absenc e of plates. Its morphology also provides support for the recently sug gested anteroposterior orientation of Hallucigenia and Microdictyon.