Mureropodia
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Mureropodia Temporal range:
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Genus: | Mureropodia
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Species: | M. apae
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Mureropodia apae Gámez et al., 2011
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This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (February 2014) |
Mureropodia is a lobopodian in the class Xenusia, which existed in what is now Spain during the early Cambrian period. It was described by José Antonio Gámez Vintaned, Eladio Liñán and Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev in 2011, and the type species is M. apae.[1]
References
- ^ a b Vintaned, José Antonio Gámez; Liñán, Eladio; Zhuravlev, Andrey Yu (2011). "A New Early Cambrian Lobopod-Bearing Animal (Murero, Spain) and the Problem of the Ecdysozoan Early Diversification". In Pontarotti, Pierre (ed.). Evolutionary Biology – Concepts, Biodiversity, Macroevolution and Genome Evolution. pp. 193–219. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20763-1_12. ISBN 978-3-642-20762-4.