Orstenotubulus
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| Orstenotubulus Temporal range:
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| File:Orstenotubulus.png | |
| Reconstruction of Orstenotubulus | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Panarthropoda |
| Phylum: | †Lobopodia |
| Genus: | †Orstenotubulus |
| Species: | †O. evamuellerae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Orstenotubulus evamuellerae Maas et al 2007 [1]
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Orstenotubulus is a genus of lobopodian known from Orsten deposits of the latest 'middle' Cambrian (Miaolingian).[1][2]
Morphology
[edit | edit source]Orstenotubulus was a Mid Cambrian lobopodian. It had an elongated, thin body with pairs of dorsal spines running down the entire top of the body. It also had tiny retractable spines ventral to the leg surface. Orstenotubulus would have crawled along the sea floor like most other lobopodians, using its dorsal spines to deter any predators.[1]
References
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- ^ 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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