Cardiodictyon

Cardiodictyon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
(unranked):	Panarthropoda
Phylum:	†"Lobopodia"
Class:	†Xenusia
Order:	†
Family:	†
Genus:	†Cardiodictyon

Cardiodictyon is a genus of lobopodian known from the Chengjiang Lagerstätten. It has ~25 pairs of legs, each associated with a pair of dorsal plates.

Each leg terminates in a pair of claws.^[1] It may or may not have a head shield,^[2] though it certainly has an expanded head.^[3]

References[]

^ Ramsköld, L., & Chen, J.-Y. (1998). Cambrian Lobopodians: Morphology and Phylogeny. In Arthropod fossils and phylogeny (pp. 107–150). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231096546
^ Bergstrom, J.; Hou, X. (2001). "Cambrian Onychophora or Xenusians". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 240 (3–4): 237–245. doi:10.1078/0044-5231-00031.
^ Jianni Liu; Jason A. Dunlop (15 March 2014). "Cambrian lobopodians: A review of recent progress in our understanding of their morphology and evolution". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 398: 4–15. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.06.008.

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[1] Ramsköld, L., & Chen, J.-Y. (1998). Cambrian Lobopodians: Morphology and Phylogeny. In Arthropod fossils and phylogeny (pp. 107–150). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231096546

[2] Bergstrom, J.; Hou, X. (2001). "Cambrian Onychophora or Xenusians". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 240 (3–4): 237–245. doi:10.1078/0044-5231-00031.

[3] Jianni Liu; Jason A. Dunlop (15 March 2014). "Cambrian lobopodians: A review of recent progress in our understanding of their morphology and evolution". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 398: 4–15. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.06.008.

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