- The
clade Mandibulata constitutes one of the
major subdivisions of the
phylum Arthropoda,
alongside Chelicerata.
Mandibulates include the crustaceans...
- into
antennae in the
ancestors of
Mandibulata,
which would place trilobites,
which had antennae,
closer to
Mandibulata than Chelicerata, in the
clade Antennulata...
-
research has
generally considered them to be stem or
crown group members of
Mandibulata, due to the
presence of
mandibles in well-preserved species. Hymenocarines...
-
arthropod group is most
closely related to the Myriapoda.
Under the
Mandibulata hypothesis,
Myriapoda is the
sister taxon to Pancrustacea, a
group comprising...
-
eurypterids (sea scorpions) and chasmataspidids.
Chelicerata split from
Mandibulata by the mid-Cambrian, as
evidenced by stem-group
chelicerates like Habeliida...
- The
crustacean group can be
treated as a
subphylum under the
clade Mandibulata. It is now well
accepted that the
hexapods (insects and entognathans)...
-
genomes (Regier et al.)
strongly supports Pancrustacea and
strongly favour Mandibulata (Myriapoda + Pancrustacea) over
Paradoxopoda (Myriapoda + Chelicerata)...
- phylogeny: phylogenomics,
microRNAs and
morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata".
Proceedings of the
Royal Society of
London B:
Biological Sciences....
-
Kingdom Animalia Subkingdom Eumetazoa Clade Bilateria Clade Protostomia Superphylum Ecdysozoa Chelicerata Mandibulata italic are
paraphyletic groups...
-
Crustacea and
Hexapoda (insects etc.).
These groups make up the
clade Mandibulata,
which is
currently believed to be the
sister group to the rest of arthropods...
