- monophyletic, and many
analyses support the
placement of
arthropods with
cycloneuralians (or
their constituent clades) in a
superphylum Ecdysozoa. Overall,...
- (armour) + ferre, to bear) is a
phylum of very
small to
microscopic marine cycloneuralian sediment-dwelling
animals with 43
described species. and approximately...
-
remains were
typically woody in composition.
Carbonized fossil of a
cycloneuralian worm that was once
misidentified as
leech from the
Silurian Waukesha...
- (September 2022). "The
evolutionary relationships of the
earliest known cycloneuralians and a new
record from the
Cambrian Fortunian of
South China". Palaeoworld...
- Like the
Burgess Shale, the
Waukesha Biota, from the
Silurian of Wisconsin,
preserves many soft-bodied organisms, such as this
cycloneuralian worm....
- such as a
hitherto unknown phylum;
cycloneuralian worms undergone convergent with
arthropods (based on the
cycloneuralian-like
radial mouthparts); stem chelicerate...
- worm. It has been
described as the
first occurrence of a free
living Cycloneuralian from the
Cambrian period. "Shergoldana Maas, Waloszek, Haug & Müller...
-
palaeoscolecid sclerites, may
represent a
deeper link
connecting it with
cycloneuralian outgroups.
Lobopodians are paraphyletic, and
include the last common...
- Hou et al. (1995, 2006)
suggested Opabinia is a
member of
unusual cycloneuralian worms with
convergent arthropod features.
Although Zhang and Briggs...
-
subsequent phylogenomic studies consistently place them
closer to
cycloneuralians (nematodes, nematomorphs, loriciferans,
kinorhynchas and priapulids)...
