Orstenotubulus

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Orstenotubulus
Temporal range: Guzhangian
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
(unranked): Panarthropoda
Phylum: "Lobopodia"
Genus: ��Orstenotubulus
Species:
O. evamuellerae
Binomial name
Orstenotubulus evamuellerae
Maas et al 2007 [1]

Orstenotubulus is a genus of lobopodian known from Orsten deposits of the latest 'middle' Cambrian (Miaolingian).[1][2] It is believed by some to be an ancestor of the Tardigrades.

References[]

  1. ^ a b Maas, A.; Mayer, G.; Kristensen, R. M.; Waloszek, D. (2007). "A Cambrian micro-lobopodian and the evolution of arthropod locomotion and reproduction". Chinese Science Bulletin. 52 (24): 3385. doi:10.1007/s11434-007-0515-3.
  2. ^ Maas A, Waloszek D. 2001. Cambrian derivatives of the early arthropod stem lineage, pentastomids, tardigrades and lobopodians – an ‘Orsten’ perspective. Zoologischer Anzeiger 240: 451–459.


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