Phylum Lobopodia
Geologic Age: Early Cambrian, 525 million years old
Fossil
is 30 mm long
Chengjiang Maotianshan Shales - Quiongzhusi Section, Yu’anshan Member,
Heilinpu Formation, Ercaicun Village, Anning, Kunming, Yunnan Province,
China
Remarks: The Chengjiang Maotianshan Shales is a Burgess Shale-like deposit
with amazing faunal diversity of fossils preserving soft tissue. The Lobopodians
were small marine and terrestrial animals informally called velvet
worms. Velvet worms are extant, and all recent forms are
terrestrial. Lobopodians were marine, and mainly
from the Cambrian. Was
trilobite exoskeleton origins from a lobopodian or a similar animal to
this?
Also see:
Trilobite Relatives |
