- 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...
- such as a
hitherto unknown phylum;
cycloneuralian worms undergone convergent with
arthropods (based on the
cycloneuralian-like
radial mouthparts); stem chelicerate...
- Like the
Burgess Shale, the
Waukesha Biota, from the
Silurian of Wisconsin,
preserves many soft-bodied organisms, such as this
cycloneuralian worm....
-
remains were
typically woody in composition.
Carbonized fossil of a
cycloneuralian worm that was once
misidentified as
leech from the
Silurian Waukesha...
-
Sirius P****et Lagerstätte of
North Greenland and Its
Implications for
Cycloneuralian Evolution".
Journal of Paleontology. 84 (2): 332–340. doi:10.1666/09-102R...
-
authors may
rather suggest different taxonomic affinities (e.g. as
cycloneuralian relatives), most of the
phylogenetic studies suggest that dinocaridids...
- claw-like
structures on 'appendages'. Haug, J. T.; Haug, C. (2014). "A new
cycloneuralian from the
Burgess Shale with a palaeoscolecid-type
terminal end". Neues...
-
subsequent phylogenomic studies consistently place them
closer to
cycloneuralians (nematodes, nematomorphs, loriciferans,
kinorhynchas & priapulids)...
-
palaeoscolecid sclerites, may
represent a
deeper link
connecting it with
cycloneuralian outgroups. Many
further studies followed and
extended the idea, generally...
