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ancestral arthropod. Only two
fossil species are
confidently ****igned as
onychophorans:
Antennipatus from the Late Carboniferous, and
Cretoperipatus from the...
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priapulids and
onychophorans,
there is a
layer of
outermost circular muscles and a
layer of
innermost longitudinal muscles. The
onychophorans also have a...
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modern onychophorans. On the
other hand, some
analysis rather support the
position of
Hallucigenia as a
basal panarthropod outside of
onychophoran stem-group...
- the term "Lobopodia" is
sometimes expanded to
include tardigrades and
onychophorans as well.
Common characteristics of the
Panarthropoda include a segmented...
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genus of
French onychophoran, a
group colloquially known as
velvet worms. The
genus is
notable for
being the
oldest confirmed onychophoran fossil, dating...
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interpretations of the its anatomy. Some
researchers consider it an
onychophoran (velvet worm) that lost its
claws when fossilized.
Others reject this...
- evident. A pair of legs
marks the
posterior end of the body,
unlike in
onychophorans where the ****
projects posteriad; this may be an
adaptation to the...
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Burgess shale.
Extant phyla in
these rocks include molluscs, brachiopods,
onychophorans, tardigrades, arthropods,
echinoderms and hemichordates,
along with...
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thorax in
addition to four wings.
Helenodora inopinata, a stem-group
onychophoran known from
Indiana A
roachoid insect found in
Carboniferous rocks of...
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extant Onychophora (velvet worm) and is the only
widely accepted stem-
onychophoran lobopodian from the
Cambrian period.
Antennacanthopodia had nine pairs...
