Quadratapora
| Quadratapora Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 2 | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Superphylum: | Ecdysozoa |
| Phylum: | †"Lobopodia" |
| Class: | †Xenusia |
| Order: | †Archonychophora |
| Family: | †Eoconchariidae |
| Genus: | †Quadratapora |
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Quadratapora is a genus of lobopodian known only from its biomineralized dorsal plates, which somewhat resemble those of Microdictyon.[1] Its fossils date to the Tommotian, representing (perhaps along with Rhombocorniculum)[2] the earliest record of lobopodians.[1]
References
- 1 2 Zhang, X. -G.; Aldridge, R. J. (2007). "Development and Diversification of Trunk Plates of the Lower Cambrian Lobopodians". Palaeontology 50 (2): 401–415. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00634.x.
- ↑ Caron, J. -B.; Smith, M. R.; Harvey, T. H. P. (2013). "Beyond the Burgess Shale: Cambrian microfossils track the rise and fall of hallucigeniid lobopodians.". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1767): 20131613. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1613. PMC 3735267. PMID 23902914.
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