Siberion
Appearance
Siberion | |
---|---|
Reconstruction of Siberion lenaicus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | |
Phylum: | |
Class: | |
Order: | |
Family: | |
Genus: | †Siberion Dzik 2011
|
Species: | †S. lenaicus
|
Binomial name | |
†Siberion lenaicus Dzik 2011
|
Siberion is an extinct genus of lobopodian from the Sinsk biota of Russia. Its anatomy, including the proboscis-like organ projecting from the face and prominent grasping first pair of appendages, suggests that xenusians like this organism may have been phylogenetically related to anomalocaridids, like Anomalocaris.[3]
References
- ^ Gradstein, Felix; Ogg, James; Smith, Alan (2004). A Geologic Time Scale. Cambridge University Press. pp. 147–149. ISBN 0-521-78673-8.
- ^ Ivantsova, Andrey; Zhuravlevb, Andrey; Legutaa, Anton; Valentin, Krassilova; Melnikovaa, Lyudmila; Ushatinskayaa, Galina (2005). "Palaeoecology of the Early Cambrian Sinsk biota from the Siberian Platform" (PDF). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 220 (1–2): 69–88. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.01.022.
- ^ a b c Dzik, Jerzy (2011). "The xenusian-to-anomalocaridid transition within the lobopodians". Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 50(1): 65-74.