Quadratapora
Appearance
Quadratapora Temporal range:
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
(unranked): | Panarthropoda |
Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
Class: | †Xenusia |
Order: | †Archonychophora |
Family: | †Eoconchariidae |
Genus: | †Quadratapora |
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Quadratapora is a genus of lobopodian known only from its biomineralized dorsal plates, which somewhat resemble those of Microdictyon.[1] Its fossils date to the Tommotian, representing (perhaps along with Rhombocorniculum)[2] the earliest record of lobopodians.[1]
References
- ^ a b Zhang, X. -G.; Aldridge, R. J. (2007). "Development and Diversification of Trunk Plates of the Lower Cambrian Lobopodians". Palaeontology. 50 (2): 401–415. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00634.x.
- ^ Caron, J. -B.; Smith, M. R.; Harvey, T. H. P. (2013). "Beyond the Burgess Shale: Cambrian microfossils track the rise and fall of hallucigeniid lobopodians". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 280 (1767): 20131613. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1613. PMC 3735267. PMID 23902914.