- 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....
- cross-section and rows of
unstructured body
appendages known as
oncopods or
lobopods (informally: stub feet). They
reach lengths between 0.1 and 22 cm (0.04–8...
-
these animals were
similar to
onychophorans and to
various Early Cambrian "
lobopods", and he
presented an "evolutionary
family tree" that
showed these as "aunts"...
-
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...
- the
distinctive legs (
lobopods) that are
usually seen in
Lobopodian groups. Budd,
Graham E. (1993), "A
Cambrian gilled lobopod from Greenland", Nature...
-
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...
-
therefore interpreted the "triangles" as short, fleshy,
conical legs (
lobopods). He also
found small mineralized patches at the tips of some, and interpreted...
-
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...
-
Ovatiovermis had nine
pairs of
lobopods. The
first two
pairs were
elongate and had
approximately 20
pairs of
spines on each
lobopod, with a
bifid claw at each...
-
whereas others (after
Simonetta and
Delle Cave)
recognized a
group of
lobopods containing Onychophora, Tardigrada, and
Aysheaia (with
features of both)...
