- Cavalier-Smith (1998). They are
panarthropods with
stubby legs
called lobopods, a term
which may also be used as a
common name of this
group as well....
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these animals were
similar to
onychophorans and to
various Early Cambrian "
lobopods", and he
presented an "evolutionary
family tree" that
showed these as "aunts"...
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worms or "worm-like animals"
despite having had legs in the form of
stubby lobopods. Likewise, the
extant Onychophora are
sometimes called velvet worms despite...
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whereas others (after
Simonetta and
Delle Cave)
recognized a
group of
lobopods containing Onychophora, Tardigrada, and
Aysheaia (with
features of both)...
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appendages to grab small-sized prey. Budd,
Graham E. (1993), "A
Cambrian gilled lobopod from Greenland", Nature, 364 (6439): 709–711, doi:10.1038/364709a0, S2CID 4341971...
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therefore interpreted the "triangles" as short, fleshy,
conical legs (
lobopods). He also
found small mineralized patches at the tips of some, and interpreted...
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gilled lobopodian genera, the
trunk may have
borne a
lobopodous limb (
lobopod)
underneath each of the flaps. The
midgut of
dinocaridids had
paired digestive...
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hallucigeniid worms from
other parts of the world.
classification of
these lobopods and
their relatives are
still controversial, and the
family consists of...
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flaps with
dorsal gill-like wrinkling. Initially, 11
pairs of
small legs (
lobopods) were
thought to be
evident just
below the flaps, but
later observations...
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Paucipodia inermis is a
lobopod known from the
Lower Cambrian Chengjiang lagerstätte. Its gut is puzzling; in some places, it is
preserved in
three dimensions...
