Mureropodia

Mureropodia is a lobopodian in the class Xenusia, which existed in what is now Spain during the early Cambrian period. It was described by José Antonio Gámez Vintaned, Eladio Liñán and Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev in 2011, and the type species is M. apae.[1]

Mureropodia
Temporal range: Cambrian Series 2
Digitally enhanced photograph of the fossil[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Genus:
Mureropodia
Species:
M. apae
Binomial name
Mureropodia apae
Gámez et al., 2011

The holotype specimen of M. apae was reinterpreted as a partial isolated appendage of a member of the radiodontan genus Caryosyntrips by Pates & Daley (2017);[2][3] this reinterpretation was criticized by Gámez Vintaned & Zhuravlev (2018).[4]

References

  1. Vintaned, José Antonio Gámez; Liñán, Eladio; Zhuravlev, Andrey Yu (2011). "A New Early Cambrian Lobopod-Bearing Animal (Murero, Spain) and the Problem of the Ecdysozoan Early Diversification". In Pontarotti, Pierre (ed.). Evolutionary Biology – Concepts, Biodiversity, Macroevolution and Genome Evolution. pp. 193–219. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20763-1_12. ISBN 978-3-642-20762-4.
  2. Stephen Pates; Allison C. Daley (2017). "Caryosyntrips: a radiodontan from the Cambrian of Spain, USA and Canada". Papers in Palaeontology. 3 (3): 461–470. doi:10.1002/spp2.1084.
  3. Stephen Pates; Allison C. Daley; Javier Ortega-Hernández (2018). "Reply to Comment on "Aysheaia prolata from the Utah Wheeler Formation (Drumian, Cambrian) is a frontal appendage of the radiodontan Stanleycaris" with the formal description of Stanleycaris". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 63 (1): 105–110. doi:10.4202/app.00443.2017.
  4. José A. Gámez Vintaned; Andrey Y. Zhuravlev (2018). "Comment on "Aysheaia prolata from the Utah Wheeler Formation (Drumian, Cambrian) is a frontal appendage of the radiodontan Stanleycaris" by Stephen Pates, Allison C. Daley, and Javier Ortega-Hernández". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 63 (1): 103–104. doi:10.4202/app.00335.2017.
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