Biology:Aglaspidida
Aglaspidida | |
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Aglaspis spinifer | |
Fossil of Beckwithia typa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
(unranked): | †Artiopoda |
(unranked): | †Vicissicaudata |
Order: | †Aglaspidida Walcott, 1911 |
Subtaxa[1] | |
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Aglaspidida is an extinct order of aquatic arthropods that were once regarded as primitive chelicerates. However, anatomical comparisons demonstrate that the aglaspidids cannot be accommodated within the chelicerates,[2] and that they lie instead within the Artiopoda, thus placing them closer to the trilobites.[3] Aglaspidida contains the subgroups Aglaspididae and Tremaglaspididae, which are distinguished by the presence of acute/spinose genal angles and a long spiniform tailspine in the Aglaspididae.[1]
Aglaspidid fossils are found in North America (upper Mississippi valley, Missouri and Utah), Europe, Australia , and China . Certain other artiopods are believed to be closely related to the aglaspidids, including the order Strabopida, which includes the genera Strabops, Paleomerus, Parapaleomerus, and possibly Khankaspis.
List of genera
- Aglaspella
- Aglaspis
- Aglaspoides
- Australaglaspis
- Beckwithia
- Chlupacaris
- Chraspedops
- Cyclopites
- Flobertia
- Girardevia
- Glypharthrus
- Kwanyinaspis
- Quasimodaspis
- Setaspis
- Tremaglaspis
- Tuboculops
- Uarthrus
- Zonoscutum
- Zonozoe
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lerosey-Aubril, Rudy; Zhu, Xuejian; Ortega-Hernández, Javier (September 11, 2017). "The Vicissicaudata revisited – insights from a new aglaspidid arthropod with caudal appendages from the Furongian of China". Scientific Reports 7 (1): 11117. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-11610-5. PMID 28894246.
- ↑ Ortega-Hernández, J.; Braddy, S. J.; Jago, J. B.; Baillie, P. W. (2010). "A new aglaspidid arthropod from the Upper Cambrian of Tasmania". Palaeontology 53 (5): 1065–1076. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00974.x.
- ↑ Ortega-Hernández, J.; Legg, D. A.; Braddy, S. J. (2013). "The phylogeny of aglaspidid arthropods and the internal relationships within Artiopoda". Cladistics 29: 15–45. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00413.x.
- Hesselbo, SP. 1992. Aglaspidida (Arthropoda) from the Upper Cambrian of Wisconsin. Journal of Paleontology 66(6)885-923.
- Raasch, GO. 1939. Cambrian Merostomata. Geological Society of America Special Paper 19, 146p.
External links
- Virtual fossli museum on Aglaspida
- Fossilmall Australian Aglaspida
- Merostomata genera
- Enrico Bonino Aglaspida description page (in Italian)
Wikidata ☰ Q394207 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglaspidida.
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