Cucumericrus
Appearance
Cucumericrus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Stem group: | Arthropoda |
Genus: | †Cucumericrus Hou, Bergstrom & Ahlberg, 1995 |
Species: | †C. decoratus
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Binomial name | |
†Cucumericrus decoratus Hou, Bergstrom & Ahlberg, 1995
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Cucumericrus is a genus of anomalocaridid known from a few poorly preserved specimens. Its great appendages are never preserved,[1] but it does seem to bear walking legs, which have been interpreted as somewhere between lobopod legs and segmented arthropod legs.[2]
References
- ^ Allison C. Daley & Graham E. Budd (2010). "New anomalocaridid appendages from the Burgess Shale, Canada". Palaeontology. 53 (4): 721–738. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00955.x.
- ^ Jan Bergström & Hou Xian-Guang (2003). "Arthropod origins" (PDF). Bulletin of Geosciences. 78 (4): 323–334.