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Evidence for Monophyly and Arthropod Affinity of Cambrian Giant Predators
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The Chinese Early Cambrian Chengjiang fauna includes three different anomalocaridids, a globally spread, extinct marine group including the largest known Cambrian animals. Anomalocaridids were active predators, and their presence implies that a complex ecosystem appeared abruptly in the earliest Phanerozoic. Complete specimens display several sets of characters shared only with some other exclusively Cambrian forms. This evidence indicates that anomalocaridids, Opabinia , and Kerygmachela form a monophyletic clade. Certain features indicate arthropod affinities of the clade, and for this group an unnamed (sub)phylum-level taxon within an arthropod (super)phylum is proposed.
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- Chen, J.-Y., Ramsköld, L., & Zhou, G.-Q.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1994-05-27
- Volume
- 264
- Issue
- 5163
- Pages
- 1304-1308
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2057320315
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- 168
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 10.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
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