- monophyletic, and many
analyses support the
placement of
arthropods with
cycloneuralians (or
their constituent clades) in a
superphylum Ecdysozoa. Overall,...
-
subsequent phylogenomic studies consistently place them
closer to
cycloneuralians (nematodes, nematomorphs, loriciferans,
kinorhynchas & priapulids)...
-
remains were
typically woody in composition.
Carbonized fossil of a
cycloneuralian worm that was once
misidentified as
leech from the
Silurian Waukesha...
- Andreas; Zhang,
Huaqiao (March 2018). "Diversity of
cnidarians and
cycloneuralians in the
Fortunian (early Cambrian)
Kuanchuanpu Formation at Zhangjiagou...
- (armour) + ferre, to bear) is a
phylum of very
small to
microscopic marine cycloneuralian sediment-dwelling
animals with 43
described species. and approximately...
- Like the
Burgess Shale, the
Waukesha Biota, from the
Silurian of Wisconsin,
preserves many soft-bodied organisms, such as this
cycloneuralian worm....
- monophyletic, and many
analyses support the
placement of
arthropods with
cycloneuralians (or
their constituent clades) in a
superphylum Ecdysozoa.
Overall however...
- the
suggested close relationship between Opabinia and tardigrades/
cycloneuralians is no
longer supported,
while the
affinity of
Opabinia as a stem-group...
- such as a
hitherto unknown phylum;
cycloneuralian worms undergone convergent with
arthropods (based on the
cycloneuralian-like
radial mouthparts); stem chelicerate...
-
palaeoscolecid sclerites, may
represent a
deeper link
connecting it with
cycloneuralian outgroups. Many
further studies followed and
extended the idea, generally...
